8/11/2023 0 Comments Song playing in amnesiac movie![]() ![]() The listener waits for the CD display to move onto the next track, when Greenwood’s guitar makes a spectacular encore, subtly echoing the chords, and as the drums can be heard from a million miles away. The song builds up to an amazing container of sound, until everything comes to a premature halt, and the listener is thrown into an empty place, lodged between silence and stillness. Yorke’s voice can hardly be made out over the guitars, so much so that you really have to listen carefully to make out the lyrics. The riff starts as a simple yet tuneful high tempo repetition with Ed O’Brien’s guitar gradually being introduced into the background. It gives the impression that the “record button” was pressed 10 seconds before the band were ready, as it starts with a guitar, loaded with volume, just testing a few notes, fading in and out. “I Might Be Wrong” is a definite highlight, a standout track which completely shatters the mood created throughout the album, an inspired release of energy. It’s a refreshing and genuine piece of music to draw the listener into the album. It’s so convincing that the listener could be forgiven for thinking that Thom Yorke or Jonny Greenwood was actually sitting in the room. It is a simple yet distinct sound that does not need any lyrics, drum, piano, or bass. ![]() The track listing consists of pieces of music, rather than songs, no more so than in “Hunting Bears,” where an isolated guitar picks a tune in the most eerie and desolate manner. Amnesiac is perhaps Radiohead’s most intense, experimental, and unconventional album to date.Īmnesiac seems to trade songs for mood. This assumption could not have been further from the truth. Recorded at the same time as the Kid A sessions, Amnesiac was anticipated to be a more accessible and guitar-based album than its counterpart.
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