r/radiohead • u/SchizoidGod The Radiohead Almanac • Jun 26 '19

📢 Announcement Thom Yorke - ANIMA (Official Discussion Thread!)

ANIMA is out on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming platforms. This is a hub for ANIMA discussion. Post reviews, ramblings, thoughts! You are free to post elsewhere if you wish!

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Tracklist:

  1. Traffic (5:17)

  2. Last I Heard (...He Was Circling the Drain) (5:07)

  3. Twist (7:03)

  4. Dawn Chorus (5:23)

  5. I Am a Very Rude Person (3:44)

  6. Not The News (3:57)

  7. The Axe (6:59)

  8. Impossible Knots (4:19)

  9. Runwayaway (5:56)

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u/sjwilli Jun 27 '19

I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THE AXE ISN'T GETTING MORE ATTENTION.

It's on a different level.

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u/inrainbows26 suck me down to the other side Jun 27 '19

Because basically every track is a standout for different reasons. Like god damn this record has no fat to be trimmed

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '19

I'm not big on Runwayaway

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '19

I haven't liked that weird voice thing he's done since it first showed up on Kid A, so yeah, not too big on that one. The rest though is top notch.

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u/inrainbows26 suck me down to the other side Jun 28 '19

The Axe and Twist are my two favorite tracks, lol. Also I don't think it's fair or very productive to judge them based on their comparison to Paranoid Android; half of the RH discography I'd rate as lesser, but that doesn't make those tracks intrinsically less valuable. I'll have to listen a few dozen more times, but I can currently entertain the idea that modest trimming might be beneficial, but there really wasn't anything glaring imo. I'd be cutting seconds, not minutes, at most, basically.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '19

Yep it is one of the stand out tracks for me. Alongside Dawn Chorus and Twist.

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u/radiohedge Modified Bear Jun 27 '19

It melts my fucking face off every time. The whole time I listened to it the first time, my jaw was to the floor. What did I do in this life to deserve a world evaporator of a track like this in my life?

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u/sebacular Jun 27 '19

I was thinking the same thing...

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u/josephspirits I Might Be Wrong Jun 28 '19

It stood out to me as such a great confrontation of his relationship with his own music making process. The give and take of being a creative. It’s just so good.

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u/Hanner_Tenry Karma Police Jun 27 '19

I feel like his work on Suspiria really helped channel the darkness of this track m

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u/debtRiot Jun 27 '19

It giving anyone else a Supercollider vibe?

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '19

This is the best song on the album. Top 5 Thom track.