Amnesiac
Radiohead 2001 pioneering
art rock electronic experimental jazz-influenced
Kid A's shadow twin: jazzier, darker, more labyrinthine, mining the same deconstruction sessions for paranoid beauty.
Acoustic Profile
Production
Method: electronic-dominant
Fidelity: lo-fi-aesthetic
Kid A session material recontextualizedjazz-electronic fusionOndes Martenotfree-jazz horns
Vocal
Approach: mixed
Lyrical Abstraction: 7/10
Mood & Theme
paranoia introspection anxiety
Territory: memory-erosion, surveillance, labyrinthine-dread
Emotional Arc: paranoid-wandering
Era & Context
2001: post-Y2K, pre-9/11. The darker, more jazz-inflected twin of Kid A, mining the same sessions for different emotions.
Spiritual Links (13)
100th Window Massive Attack (2003)
6/10 technological-anxietytextural-explorationcontrol-obsession
Chiastic Slide Autechre (1997)
6/10 sonic-experimentationtextural-exploration
Geogaddi Boards of Canada (2002)
6/10 nostalgia-as-mediumtechnological-anxiety
On the Beach Neil Young (1974)
6/10 sonic-experimentationvulnerability-as-weapon
Confield Autechre (2001)
5/10 sonic-experimentationalienation-of-fanbase
Tomorrow's Harvest Boards of Canada (2013)
5/10 technological-anxietynostalgia-as-medium
Deftones Deftones (2003)
5/10 alienation-of-fanbasetextural-exploration
Different Trains Steve Reich (1988)
5/10 technological-anxietytextural-exploration
Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles (1967)
5/10 sonic-experimentation
...I Care Because You Do Aphex Twin (1995)
4/10 sonic-experimentationtechnological-anxiety
Nothing Meshuggah (2002)
4/10 sonic-experimentationalienation-of-fanbase
Petrushka Igor Stravinsky (1911)
4/10 sonic-experimentationalienation-of-fanbase
The Private Press DJ Shadow (2002)
4/10 technological-anxietysonic-experimentation
Influences
Absorbed from
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