Anxiety and Technology

不安とテクノロジー

Albums channeling fear and unease about technological change into music that embodies those very anxieties.

Defining Traits

technological-anxiety sonic-experimentation control-obsession

Albums (5)

OK Computer
Radiohead 1997
pioneering
anxiety paranoia alienation

Guitar rock's last great monument: technological paranoia given a symphonic soundtrack, the album that anticipated the 21st century's anxieties.
Outside
David Bowie 1995
pioneering
paranoia anxiety wonder

Eno and Bowie reunited for a millennium-dread concept album: art-murder mystery wrapped in industrial noise and cut-up narratives.
Station to Station
David Bowie 1976
pioneering
paranoia ecstasy yearning

The Thin White Duke's tightrope act: European occult glamour balanced over an abyss of cocaine and Kraftwerk records.
Yeezus
Kanye West 2013
rebellious
rage defiance paranoia

The anti-MBDTF: industrial noise and acid house stripped to aggression, deliberately ugly, the most confrontational mainstream hip-hop album ever.
Hail to the Thief
Radiohead 2003
synchronized
rage anxiety paranoia

Guitars and electronics in uneasy truce: Radiohead's angriest album, channeling War on Terror paranoia into sprawling art-rock.