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| 1. 2 + 2 = 5 |
| 2. Sit down. Stand up. |
| 3. Sail to the Moon. |
| 4. Backdrifts. |
| 5. Go to Sleep. |
| 6. Where I End and You Begin. |
| 7. We suck Young Blood. |
| 8. The Gloaming. |
| 9. There there. |
| 10. I will. |
| 11. A Punchup at a Wedding. |
| 12. Myxomatosis. |
| 13. Scatterbrain. |
| 14. A Wolf at the Door. |
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Filling the gulf between OK Computer’s epic progressive rock and Kid A’s skittering electronic theatrics, Hail to the Thief borrows equally from each. Its title implies that this will be a collection filled with songs of anger and dissent, but Radiohead no longer howl at the moon like they did on 1995’s The Bends. Instead, they use eloquent metaphors and complicated arrangements to express the uncertainty, fear and anger arising from the 2000 U.S. presidential election and a post-9/11 world. There’s no doubt about where Thom Yorke and company stand; the prog-rock break on "2 + 2 = 5" and Yorke’s terror at the thought of being "put in a box" make that immediately clear. But there's a prevailing sense of powerlessness here. The tinkling piano behind the cold sonic surface of "Backdrifts" and the brief, swooping melody in the middle of "Sail to the Moon" are islands in a sea of confusion. Like all of the band’s best work, Thief requires more than a few listens to fully appreciate, but those who stick around will be richly rewarded. --Matthew Cooke
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Après deux albums plutôt expérimentaux (les géniaux Kid A et Amnesiac) suivis par un enregistrement public dans la même lignée, le quatuor d'Oxford, s'il n'opère certes pas là non plus un virage à 180°, synthétise comme jamais auparavant l'ensemble de ses préoccupations musicales. Dès 1995, sur un disque comme The Bends, on sentait déjà à l'œuvre le lyrisme tourmenté de Thom Yorke encore servi par l'évidence de chansons pops imparables. Avec OK Computer, en 1997, une étape était franchie : le groupe larguait définitivement les amarres et tutoyait les étoiles, avant de s'abandonner dans une passionnante déconstruction à la musicalité de prime abord moins évidente, mais pas moins enivrante. Hail To The Thief rassemble sur un même disque cette passion pour les chansons habitées ("Where I End And You Begin" en est un des meilleurs exemples) et un goût singulier pour la recherche, délesté cette fois de ce poids des machines qui a pu être parfois et précédemment omniprésent, qui se traduit ici par des textures sonores riches, mélancoliques et comme écorchées vives. Ce sixième album décomplexé est un des sommets de leur œuvre. --Hervé Comte
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Better than previous efforts,
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This review is from: Hail To The Thief (Audio CD)
Hail to the Thief captures the intensity of the band that seemed to me to have been put on hold while they experimented with Kid A and Amnesiac. I loved both albums, but they lacked the consistency of previous and subsequent efforts. Song highlights for me are 2+2=5, Sit Down Stand Up, I Will.
1.0 out of 5 stars
A Gigantic Bore,
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This review is from: Hail to the Thief (Audio CD)
As the mainstream rock critics grow more and more enthusiatic about this pretentious band, I become more bored. On this CD particularly, I find the melodies banal and meandering. The lyrics go nowhere. The one positive aspect of this CD is that it's great to fall asleep to. Thanks for the zzz's, guys!
5.0 out of 5 stars
A sumptuous masterpiece,
This review is from: Hail to the Thief (Audio CD)
It starts with what is still surely one of the most thrilling sounds known to modern man - a guitar being plugged into an amp. It's tempting to interpret that distinctive, buzzy pop as a statement of intent; enough of the radical experimentation, Radiohead seem to be saying - we're back and we're ready to rock.It's not quite that simple, of course. Their sixth album may see Radiohead pulling back a little from the electronica-injected, multi-textured soundscapes of both 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac' but it's by no means 'OK Computer', part II. 'Hail To The Thief' rather occupies a confident, half-way ground; it's the sound of Britain's most consistently challenging chart act achieving some kind of equilibrium, finally at ease both with themselves and with their status as this country's sole, meaningful commercial rock band. Thom Yorke has described the album as Radiohead's "shiny pop record", which is of course his little joke. The title refers to George Bush's dubious election result in Florida and titles such as 'We Suck Young Blood' and 'Myxamatosis' imply that love songs are again thin on the ground. Themes of paranoia, ignorance, systemised political deceit, powerlessness and evil abound, but although Radiohead don't deny having a serious agenda, they have no interest in music as manifesto. "Are you such a dreamer, to put the world to rights?" are Yorke's first words (in '2 + 2 = 5'); he understands that it's a futile exercise, which is why his band concentrates rather on shining the light of their intelligence on the world around them, then reflecting it back at us, brilliant tunes attached. There's an overall intensity and malevolent, looming gloom on 'Hail To the Thief', due to the fact that Yorke's initial inspiration for these 14 songs came from solitary, dusk drives around the countryside near his home, but this intensity is given a wide range of expressions: the gorgeous 'Sail To the Moon' is so loose and sweetly fluid it threatens to drift off and disappear for ever; the rhythm-driven 'The Gloaming' recalls nothing so much as 'Flat Beat'; 'We Suck Young Blood' - with its slow hand claps and vocal harmonies - is plain funereal in its chilliness; the brief guitar outbursts in 'Go To Sleep' are ragged and dirty as anything by Neil Young; but 'Backdrifts' sets woozy, techno-atmospherics and hammering keys against breakbeats so crisp they might well have been crumbed and deep-fried. It's startling that a commercial rock band could sound this blood-and-oxygen vital, this meaningful and mighty six albums into their career. That nothing less is now expected of Radiohead is proof of just how extraordinary their talent is.
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