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While it's clearly a shift towards making music identifiable as that of rockband, let's make this much clear: that doesn't clarify things in the slightest. This may be Radiohead strapping on guitars more often, and they may be walking the smack they've been talking, about "having fun" and authoring "joyous" songs and such. But such joy and fun have hardly come across on the disc after giving the full-stop/multi-titled shtick of Hail to the Thief the play-then-play-again spins that an anticipated album deserves in that first week. My first week hailing to its sounds has been rather like a week spent trying to divine a path through a haunted forest strewn with spiderwebs — that image, of course, one that that video for "There there. (The Boney King of Nowhere.)" has imprinted on minds so stylishly that so many similarly-toned tracks herein conjure up similar visions. The super-spookiness of "We Suck Young Blood. (Your Time Is Up.)" — cultivated by a piano (thumping the same minor-key block-chords it did for about half of Amnesiac), Thom Yorke's wan warbling washed out to a ghostly chorus, and more handclaps than an Architecture in Helsinki show — arouses a spectral air that unsettles through haunting effect. That, though, is one of the songs that stands out from the guitar-wrangling numbers herein; the clarity of this spookiness only implies fogs and mists, rather than eventuating them through layers laid on as thick as pea soup. So, like, rather than being a return to climbing up walls, all that these rediscovered Radiohead guitars we've been hearing about actually mean, when you get down to playing the record, is that things sound so much more dense than they did on either of those sublime twin-set set-pieces Kid A and Amnesiac. Where songs on said records were often — like the abstract-electro gear that inspired them — defined by things as simple as a texture, a tone, or an ambience, this sixth album is not nearly so Zen-like. Such notions of simplicity spiral out into an intricacy woven with complexity; mixes here try their best to try and define and delineate songs that are, by nature, opaque. There may be more guitars, the drums might be louder, and Yorke's vocals may've been left sounding cleaner. But this has not meant that Radiohead have retreaded back down this path-less-taken in retreat to their rockband past, to the time when their first three albums essentially found their brow beholden with the crowned mantle of being, well, the new U2. Where their past two discs made clean-lined pop music that happened to be oft fashioned from the crunchy digitalia of the laptop set, Hail to the Thief makes sprawling, overwrought, unkempt rock music — songs misshapen through the caprice of instinct, rhythms veering in ways more abstract than abstracted, this wandering path much more fraught with danger than that trod by the albums regarded as being off in some impenetrable wilderness by so much of the rockist massive. If you twist perspective enough, this could mean that this is Radiohead's most subversive stroke yet; that, while they're aping past tone and selling it as a return to anthemicism, Yorke and Co. have instead gone even further down their darkened path, ever closer to the yawning abyss that will one day swallow them whole; and that luring OK Computer fans this deep into this darkness is akin to the kind of pernicious tricks turned by witches in gingerbread houses.


by Anthony Carew




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