Amnesiac - Radiohead (2001)

Discog-ology: Going through an artist’s albums, or at least the ones I haven’t written up yet, in order. Hopefully will be about once a week.

Recorded in the same sessions as Kid A, this is far more than a batch of cast-offs. They fit a different mood, with more choppy, guitar-driven rock than Kid A had.

The production is still dense, combining live instruments with all sorts of effects and treatments.

Discog-ology

Next: Hail To The Thief

Previous: Kid A

Tracks I Liked

Pyramid Song - typical Yorke lyric that manages to sound apocalyptic about nothing in particular

I Might Be Wrong - one of my favorite Radiohead guitar riffs

Knives Out - I think of this as how their earlier alt-rock sound settled out. They’d make several similar songs to this on the subsequent albums