SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

it was july 11, but i think with the leak now they will speed it up
and bring it forward to as soon as possible. at least i hope so cuz
i can't wait to get my hardcopy of this one

My Kate Bush Thread is kicking this thread's ass!

Imago said:

tell you what. you bend over and i'll put on some kate bush



"washin' macheeeeene"

IstenSzek said:

It will probably still be set for july.. doubt this will bother sales.

if anything, a smart thing to do is to add a bonus disk or tracks to the album...

IstenSzek said:

Cymbal Rush is one of the cooooolest ways to end an album...



DELISH!

If you would have told me Bjork had something to do with Skip Divided I would probably believe you...

Sdldawn said:

Imago said:

what? no corporate killer bears for you?

Sdldawn said:

This is so weird. I think that with cold bleeps and whatnots you can create warmth beyond believe.

Back in the day, when The Eurythmics got great I got Touch and was SO hooked. But my rock-orientated older bro and sis freaked out. They said the sdame thing; cold.

While I cannot imagine voices more adept at conveying emotion than Lennox or Yorke. Except maybe Björk. I wish Lennox or Yorke would duet on something Yorke wrote... I can only dream.

But I get the same with The Eraser. It's so multi-layered in sounds, to me warmth radiates from the tracks straight into my psyche. Black Swan connects with me so heavily I short circuited while listening to it the first time.

Yorke uses subtlety with brute force. Me likey lots.

HamsterHuey said:

what happened?

Sdldawn said:

Hehehe, I just felt a connection first time I heard it. Sometimes you have that with certain songs; you listen to it ONCE and it feels like you've known it forever.

You can really see which songs Yorke brought to the table on HTTT after hearing The Eraser. I'm really diggin' this album and it will be a nice tie-over until we get the new Radiohead album. Of course in varying degrees of sound quality, we have the new live Radiohead songs that are out there too. It's good to be a Radiohead fan right now.

Bfunkthe1 said:

Yeah, this new one is gonna tie me over till the next album.. i'm good for now

Sounds like a Kid A outtake


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Imago said:

Thats a great thing. I think its cool that thom has the songwriting skills to evoke that sound again..


impressive little do wap's!

This album is perfect for the iPod..

Sdldawn said:

New statistics link new cases of early deafness direct to using iPods...

So no, thank you.

HamsterHuey said:

I'm going into my masters for Audiology.. so no.. your statistics are wrong..

it's a thing called a volume switch.. you determine what intensity level to hear it at..

so, if in its purest form.. its the user who is causing the deafness.

go talk to the G-riders that cruise the streets with their heavy bass for early deafness.
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Sdldawn said:

True, true.

But still. I am half deaf already. So no podding, you hear me?

HamsterHuey said:

loud and clear

Once more, with verve and passion; Black Swan

HamsterHuey said:

Yeah, to me, its got the same style, and flow of something off of Amnesiac...


possibly an outtake from the kid a/Amnesiac era.

highly likely

The Eraser (the song).. wow.. what a song. I haven't heard such a strong melody hook from Thom in a long time.

I hope the album will have some sort of hidden track..


that'd be a nice extra.. if any.

Pitchfork reviews the song "Black Swan"

Thom Yorke: "Black Swan"
genre: electro-pop

Thom Yorke always thinks big, scaling glacial edifices that make open spaces claustrophobic. Solo albums, meanwhile, are often a reactionary province-- Billy Corgan goes synth-pop, Craig Wedren MOR, and everyone from Mike Ness to Amy Millan takes a stab at country. But Yorke, a certified pop music visionary, just doesn't truck with the inessential, carving in miniature the same sort of exquisite ice sculpture that Radiohead would stadium-size.

"Black Swan" glides through glassy darkness with exactly the sinister elegance its title implies, churning a simple yet complexly overlapping turbulence in its wake. An eel-slick bass line undulates and percussion spits like steady rain, while a sinuous guitar lead intones a tight pattern of tiny chimes. Yorke sings without reverb, sounds relaxed and terrestrial and beautifully anomic, and says "fuck" a lot without making a big noise about it. Playing over the closing credits of Richard Linklater's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, this should make the perfect coda, a final ricochet in the director's existential billiards. [Brian Howe]

3 and 1/2 stars