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October 2000

Dark, gloomy, glacial, electronic, sad, much difficult. Finally the Radiohead come back on the spot with a completely new, different album that explores new sonorities, part already visited in the previous album OK Computer. The voice of Tom Yorke floats hardly, sometimes scratching like a knife over a carpet of dreaming sounds.

The beginning is shocking, with a video game kind tune overlapped by a hammering repetitive voice: Everything in its right place. A kind of modern carillon introduces Kid A, where the words get lost in a suffocated, metallic voice, like closed in a soap bubble that explodes then in the chaotic, jazzy National Anthem, where woodwind and brass play a chaotic and free music.
Reminisces of OK Computer with the splendid How to Disappear Completely with an atmosphere of shooting melancholy is supported by the continuous strings' outcry: I suggest you to close your eyes to be able to fly in the night.
Remarkable influences of Brian Eno in the liquid sound of Treefingers, ideal soundtrack for a space mission documentary. Much close to rock, is the very rhythmic, keen, Optimistic before sinking in the dark, tragic In limbo, song completely dangled in the air while echoes the lament "I' m lost at sea, don' t bother me, I've lost my way ".

It returns to rhythm with the scathing, irresistible Idioteque in order then to leave it definitively with the wonderful Morning Bell and the sweet, nearly whispered Motion Picture Soundtrack, with long hush pauses that leave you with suspended breath, nearly waiting for something that won't ever be.

The Word loses importance, in the repetitiveness of random phrases recovered (open the cd box and you will find a booklet that will dip you in an atmosphere like "Usual suspects", where pieces of phrases and unordered words are put together to create a story) and the voice becomes a distorted musical instrument to increase the restlessness of this album.

You must listen it more than ten times before beginning to understand and like it. Absolute Masterpiece.

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