Artist: Radiohead
Album: Hail To The Thief
Year: 2003
Hail To The Thief might not be the most critically acclaimed Radiohead album, but after some time it's emerged as my favorite. Sorry, OK Computer, but Yorke's incessant neuroticism and end of the world divinations reach a climax on this album. The album starts with mounting feedback and then a dark guitar line bouncing around electronic blips and drum clicks as Yorke wails about how "two and two always makes a five", ripping a page right out of Orwell's 1984. Radiohead continues this mesmerizing, gazy brooding throughout the first four tracks before launching into the rocker "Go To Sleep". "I Will" might just be as sober as "Exit Music (For A Film)" on OK. "We Suck Young Blood" might be the darkest song in Radiohead's catalog, while "A Punchup At A Wedding" has an absolutely funky bassline that drives the song. Classic Radiohead; highlights are the spectacular "There There" and the piercing "Scatterbrain". A great album that works wonders a study album for me, with Yorke pulling at your subconscious and the music rhythmic and entrancing. Highly recommended.
Hear it for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs1DX32t38c
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