Quickly. I oversold the IDM-ness of Kid A. I let “Idioteque” speak for the album as a whole (this is probably largely since when the album would come on at parties, it was when it reached this song that I knew for a fact that it was Radiohead. Up until then, it was just noise). [...]
Fellow combattant Chris broke down with a few sentences the entirety of the Radiohead œuvre in a comment to my last post, in which I announced my new year’s resolution: to finally listen to some Radiohead and see what the fuss is all about. To figure out, in other words, what I’ve been missing. What’s [...]
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It’s New Year’s resolution time. Last year’s resolution, to get hooked on coffee, was a runaway success to the degree that I’ve quit coffee for a week to see if I’ll sleep better (early reports: yes). The first helper in the process was the Bodum travel French press I bought from Amazon for like $12. [...]
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