Thom Yorke, The Eraser Reviews

pawelzietek's review has yet to be rated - Be the first!
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Strengths:

- brilliant lyrics
- haunting vocals
- long life (it takes time to get into it)
- it's moody atmosphere
- sound

Weaknesses:

- not for everyone
- needs time to start to like it but repays

Not one bad song, not one bad sound. No doubt the most haunting, magical album ever recorded. From first note of the title track it doesn't stop to mesmerize for a single moment. Thom Yorke's solo album The Eraser is a perfect example that you don't need hyper-produced bombastic tune to cast a spell that can hypnotize a listener for more than a blink of an eye... for me it's over a 2 years now that I'm kept under it's charm.

It's not for everyone though: impatience is not very well rewarded with The Eraser: it's eclectic sound needs plenty of time to find its way into the ear of the hearer and now when no-one listens to one album for more then 2 times...

Some say it's only for Radiohead's fans... I don't agree at all - it's for everybody. Everybody that wants to find something original and prefers unpretentious genius rather than overproduced mediocrity...

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I bought The Eraser around the time when it was released in June 2006. I'd already heard most of the tracks from the internet and other sources, so I pretty much knew what to expect.

The first listen was, to try and summarise, different from most other albums I've heard. I find that with most music, the tracks grow on you and you usually don't like them all at first. However, I didn't find this with The Eraser. Instead, I found myself relating to the music and every track sounded good the fir ...

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I sort of knew what to expect before I heard the Eraser album. Thom Yorke seems to be obsessed with attracting listeners to his music by the strength of the material alone. In other words, he has made no effort to seek the advantage of sensationalist production or camouflaging textures. This is of course to be admired, especially as there is much to admire here. Firstly, all of his drum beats whilst being intricate, are composed of percussive computer noises, softly tapped hi-hats and various ...