Is
\nAmnesiac<\/i> — a.k.a.
\nKid B<\/i> — as good as
\nKid A<\/i>? One thing is for sure;
\nKid B<\/i> would’ve been disc two had
\nKid A<\/i> been a double album.
\nAmnesiac<\/i> contains the residual tracks which didn’t make it;
\nhence, it is just an extension of
\nKid A<\/i>. So, how much does
\nAmnesiac<\/i> weigh against its predecessor? What could’ve been
\ndisc two” couldn’t be far off from “disc one,” could it? Well,
\nAmnesiac<\/i> is as machine-like, as de-humanized, as alienated,
\nand as synthetically yours, as
\nKid A<\/i>.<\/p>\n
This unmoving album starts off with “Packt Like Sardines In A
\nCrushed Tin Box”: a perfect track to admonish the listener of the
\nhostilities following it; and yes, as usual, singer Thom Yorke does
\nsound as if he is an alien in some Steven Spielberg movie. As if
\nexemplifying the parody of our so-called ‘civilized’ society, this
\nsong is followed up by a hauntingly sweet, melodious and very
\nhuman-like “Pyramid Song.” It is probably Radiohead’s way of
\ncontradicting the opening track. But, Radiohead couldn’t carry on
\nmuch without de-humanizing their songs, could they? From the third
\nsong (whose crazy beat Missy Elliot would appreciate) onwards, the
\nalbum drapes itself with deliberate discomfort into a self-spun
\ncocoon, alienating itself as much as possible from our evil planet
\nand a couple of others around it.<\/p>\n
The album progresses, getting more and more irritatingly
\nillegible until one eventually gets to know the genius of this
\nband. Radiohead proves that they can be brilliant musicians,
\nproducing sounds which seem as un-music-like as possible, giving a
\nwhole new dimension to musicality.<\/p>\n
In the midst of all the disorientation of the album suddenly
\nblossom “I Might Be Wrong” and “Knives Out”, assuring that Amnesiac
\nis an album created by humans of our age, not by the people of the
\nfuture playing around with their time machines to get a taste of
\nthe primitive age of 2001. It is unbelievable how the band segues
\nin a trice to real sound amidst their bombardment of surrealistic
\nones.<\/p>\n
\nKid A<\/i> was a very brave effort by Radiohead, something which
\nthey — or as a matter of fact — no other band has done before.
\nAmnesiac<\/i>, the follow-up, doesn’t conjure up that much of an
\nelement of surprise, since its offbeat
\nKid A<\/i>-ish sound was expected of it. So, even though it
\ndoesn’t seem as special as
\nKid A<\/i>,
\nAmnesiac<\/i> is an essential addition to it, surely not to be
\ndone without. In fact, neither
\nAmnesiac<\/i> nor
\nKid A<\/i> seems complete without the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":26745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5849],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-38009","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-radiohead","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38009"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=38009"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=38009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}