ZephMarshack wrote:
Oh and I've just always liked Amnesiac more because it feels more like a cohesive album to me than Kid A (or any of their other albums for that matter).
It's cohesive but it isn't. I feel like whereas
Kid A was sequenced to flow perfectly from beginning to end,
Amnesiac was all about making transitions as jarring as possible ("Pyramid Song" into "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" being the most obvious). It's episodic instead of serial.
Hail to the Thief is the same way, where almost all the songs are good, they all belong together, but you'd never think of the whole gestalt of it being a Great Album.
"How to Disappear Completely" and "Idioteque" are my favorites from the Kid Amnesiac sessions, incidentally. Love those atonal strings. I went to a performance of Messaien's
Quartet for the End of Time a few weeks ago. If anyone's doing any Penderecki any time soon, I'll have to get to that too.
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