Hail To the Thief
Radiohead

These songs fall into two categories for me: bearable and unbearable. Most songs are unbearable as they have that pretentious feeling combined with a wall of noise. It makes for an overall aggravating experience. The bearable songs don’t have the wall of noise, and while the instruments tend to sound quite nice, the vocals are off putting and annoying. They tend to match the music, but that’s more indicative of how grating the album is as a whole.

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