1001 Albums Summary

7/10 Well, you know the guy from the S&G duo, as always, amazing songwriting. A very easy going and peaceful record. Almost transcendental. The flow is perfect. Album starts off with on a depressing note, about a mother contemplating suicide to reunite with her dead son, sung in an angelic voice as if hiding all that sadness. Then we get to my favourite track of the album, "Duncan", which blasts all that depression away with it's cheeky humorous tone (oh, and love the flute on this one). This mixture of light and dark, funny and serious is part of what makes this LP work so well. Well, not gonna be dissecting every track of this album as only some tracks truly stuck with me. There are no real duds on this one - that sweet, peaceful, angelic tone is present throughout the album, it's just me not being able to connect with a sizable chunk, especially slide 2 which was definitely weaker than the first. Still, a great album and a great listening experience.

The instrumentation is beautiful, vocals are raw, and do a wonderful job portraying all those emotions. Not a single dud in the album, but unfortunately, not a single song stuck with me.

Nice collection of sounds we have here but that's about it. Everything else, be it songwriting or whatnot, is unremarkable to say the least. Was expecting more considering the legacy behind this album, with pitchfork giving it a 10 and the general consensus of this being a life changing masterpiece, but well, it is what it is. Probably the band's most experimental work, but relatively speaking, it could barely be called experimental. The digestible experimental type, I guess. If I wanted that sound, there are other projects doing it better, and being more bold about it. Couldn't really connect with the album. The vision is there, sure, but it felt incomplete. Still a good album, just not the "good" I expected from one of Radiohead's most famed work.

Wow, that was great. Cool, relaxing and charming yet engaging and unpredictable. changes its tempo like twice, sometimes played solo, sometimes unison, and even passed through different instruments in sliced up phrases and then that abstract drum solo. All that happened in the title track, which remains the highlight of this album. Undeniable classic.

Somehow worse than what I remembered. Still a solid album, maybe I haven't had enough pussy to comprehend it's greatness.