Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner join forces in album of vivid, eerie, ghostly beauty, packed with fabulous guitar and bass riffs and rhythms, reminiscent of cinematic work as well as In Rainbows. The trio’s playing feels fresh and instinctive, interactive but also having enough space to be audible with the perfect blend of simplicity and and intricacy, jams though, turned into fully formed songs rather than experimental pieces. Overall it feels like a stripped back Radiohead album with something extra, from the stormy You Will Never Work In Television Again, where Yorke opens his voice full throttle for what feels the first time in years, to the delicate falsetto and clever syncopated bass riff of The Smoke, the ghostly Pana-vision, the brilliant trio complexity of Thin Thing, the quiet emotional power of Free In The Knowledge or Open The Floodgates. Additional instruments with strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra and a full brass section of contemporary UK jazz players including Byron Wallen, Theon and Nathaniel Cross, Chelsea Carmichael, Robert Stillman and Jason Yarde. Overal, it could have been an impenetrable work of pretentiousness by artists with nothing to prove, but in fact this album is a superb set of songs expertly performed. Out on XL Recordings.
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