Radiohead like to push their boundaries, and on this album they have taken tracks such as the neo-jazz National Anthem, stripped it down, and given it a guitar overhaul.
This doesn’t mean that Radiohead have reverted to their sound circa The Bends, as Radiohead aren’t the type of band to revert to past glories, what they have done is adapt the electronic edge from both albums, and built upon it, giving a rawer feel to the songs.
When listening to this album, in particularly on the tracks Like Spinning Plates, and I Might Be Wrong you can almost imagine that these were how the demo versions to the tracks originally sounded. It’s like you’ve stepped into the alternate worlds of Kid A / Amnesiac.
The finale of the album is a previously unrecorded track, True Love Waits, leaving us with just Thom Yorke and an acoustic guitar, serving us with a reminder of how fantastic Radiohead are at writing straight forward songs, when they’re not changing the face of indie guitar music.
Good review
and great live album, but I've heard some of the songs- notably Idioteque- done better on bootlegs. But True Love Waits is a gem.