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Billed as the more accessible bookend to the inscrutable but chart-topping Kid A, this compelling disc isn't exactly a paradigm of mainstream pop. Yes, guitars do rear their -- sometimes ugly, sometimes quite beautiful -- heads more often on Amnesiac, but the songs here are every bit as deep and provocative. Not that that's a bad thing, of course. Most of Amnesiac's songs are wrapped in claustrophobia-inducing effects (like the pitch-shifter applied to Thom Yorke's already otherworldly voice on "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors") or bracing, atonal blasts of noise (like the machine-shop blare that permeates "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box"). When they do surface, the guitars that were all but absent on Kid A emerge in uncharacteristic ways: "I Might Be Wrong," for instance, finds Jonny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien locked in a down-and-dirty blues battle that suggests the Yardbirds -- as gene-spliced with Underworld. Similarly, "Pyramid Song" takes a relatively spare, piano-driven melody and surrounds it with strings that wrap ever tighter, accentuating the desperate tone of Yorke's vocal. The singer asserts himself a bit more strongly on this disc, rather than burying his plaints beneath the sonic waves. His tone, harried and paranoid, remains essentially unchanged, his frets and fears articulated with an anguished delivery that sounds more credible than ever. Exhausting, but unforgettable, stuff.
Condition:NEW. Slashed case
TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box 4:00
2 Pyramid Songs 4:48
3 Pulk/Pull Revolving Door 4:07
4 You and Whose Army? 3:10
5 I Might Be Wrong 4:53
6 Knives Out 4:14
7 Moring Bell/Anmesiac 3:14
8 Dollars + Cents 4:51
9 Hunting Bears 2:01
10 Like Spinning Plates 3:57
11 Life in a Glasshouse 4:34
Disc 2
1 The Amazing Sounds of Orgy 3:38
2 Trans-Atlantic Drawl 3:01
3 Fast-Track 3:17
4 Kinetic 4:06
5 Worrywort 4:37
6 Fog 4:04
7 Cuttooth 5:23
8 Life in a Glasshouse Full Length Version 5:08
9 You and Whose Army? Live 3:18
10 Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box Live 3:04
11 Dollars + Cents Live 4:41
12 I Might Be Wrong Live 4:55
13 Knives Out Live 4:22
14 Pyramid Song Live 5:07
15 Like Spinning Plates 3:52
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