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Album Review
by SashaS
9-11-2001
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Radiohead: 'I Might Be Wrong – Live Recordings'
(Parlophone)
Radiohead’s mini-live album is so intensely delightful to make a black leather enjoyment outta downpour
Radiohead’s new release is a live mini album recorded at gigs on this year’s world tour - Oxford, Oslo, Berlin and Vaison La Romaine (France). Original versions of these songs can be found on the albums ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’, with the exception of ‘True Love Waits’ that has never been committed to tape before.
Official bit out of the way, Radiohead continues on their sombre way by doing things the way they like: this is their third release in less that 18 months while they are a band you’d expect to have a painful and laborious studio-time over a couple of years. Their pace of work certainly doesn’t affect quality of music that is as compelling as it’s ever been.
There is an extra dimension to their creativity, some magnetism that sucks you in their world full of imagery that is like… ‘Alice Wonderland’ walking on the ‘Yellow Brick Road’, bordered by Gothic kerb. It is surreal, childish, fairy-tales-que, deep, penetrating, playful… Everything you’d expect from the men who appears to be delighted in deeper, but more meaningful, depression. (It could just be me, dunno.)
Songs such as ‘The National Anthem’, ‘I Might Be Wrong’, ‘Morning Bell’, ’Like Spinning Plates’, ‘Idioteque’, ‘Everything In Its Right Place’, ‘Dollars and Cents’ are known but gain additional scope, extra grandeur, epic-dimension in the live setting. That leaves ‘True Love Waits’, an acoustic number that still carries you on its wing of magic, as only Thom Yorke can.
What verdict to pass when mental pictures evoked are individual, the downcast feelings are shared, the melancholy is ubiquitous… You either stand, by now, on their side of noise or not and this will hardly change anyone’s mind. Meself, I even enjoyed the Oxford park’s downpour…
8/10
SashaS
9-11-2001
Radiohead’s ‘I Might Be Wrong – Live Recordings’ mini-album is released 12 November 2001 on Parlophone
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