Somewhat ironically, minus a handful of the more conventionally structured songs, the album would be almost as fractured, remote, and challenging as Amnesiac. The spook-filled "Sail to the Moon," one of several songs featuring prominent piano, rivals "Street Spirit" and hovers compellingly without much sense of force carrying it along. Stand Up." been made two years before, each song's slowly swelling intensity would have plateaued a couple minutes in, functioning as mood pieces without any release instead, each boils over into its own cathartic tantrum. Had the opening "2 + 2 = 5" and "Sit Down. So, whether or not the group is to be considered "back," there is a certain return to relatively traditional songcraft. Guitars churn and chime and sound like guitars more often than not drums are more likely to be played by a human and discernible verses are more frequently trailed by discernible choruses. Radiohead's admittedly assumed dilemma: how to push things forward using just the right amounts of the old and the older in order to please both sides of the divide? Taking advantage of their longest running time to date, enough space is provided to quench the thirsts of resolute Bends devotees without losing the adventurous drive or experimentation that eventually got the group into hot water with many of those same listeners.
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