CD Review: Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Published July 15, 2006
The Eraser is a solid album from start to finish and is the perfect stopgap until a new Radiohead album likely appears sometime next year. Even though it's not up to the level of Radiohead's best work, it's a more cohesive effort than the band's 2003 album Hail To The Thief. This album doesn't strive to be “art” in the way that Radiohead albums do and that is both its biggest strength and weakness. The layers of depth that can keep fans listening to an album for months before they really start to “get it” aren't really present on The Eraser. That sometimes gives it a feeling that something is missing. At the same time, everything about this album is good enough to the point that you can just blissfully ignore whatever it may be missing.
Thom Yorke will be performing two songs from The Eraser (including one accompanied by Jonny Greenwood and Nigel Godrich) on IFC's The Henry Rollins Show on Saturday, July 15 at 10 pm ET/7 pm PT with a rerun on Thursday, July 20 at 11 pm ET/8 pm PT. One of the performances can already be seen online at IFC's website.
- CD Review: Thom Yorke - The Eraser
- Published: July 15, 2006
- Type: Review
- Section: Music
- Filed Under: Music: Electronica, Music: Alternative Rock
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Thom Yorke shows real courage and integrity with this album, especially "Harrowdown Hill," regarding the suspicious death of whistleblowing British chem/bio weapons expert Dr. David Kelly.
There was never a genuine coroner's inquest, and even after the Blair government's "Hutton Inquiry" which was denounced throughout the British press as a whitewash, the paramedics at the scene of his death have since filed legal statements (if only for their self-protection, I suppose) that they don't think he committed suicide.
Liberal Democrat MP (Member of Parliament) Norman Baker has reopened an investigation of his own, and an in-depth article by him is due out shortly. See the recent Google video of a GMTV interview of him about the Kelly case. You can also look at our 3 longstanding discussion threads about the Kelly case on Guardian Unlimited Talk Politics.
See also the insightful Globe and Mail interview of Yorke about "The Eraser." He has a powerful, determined, and decent mind.