Paranoid Android Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Last week Thom Yorke announced that he'd be releasing an album called the Eraser. It will be released on XL July 10th.Tracklist is01 the eraser02 analyse03 the clock04 black swan05 skip divided06 atoms for peace07 and it rained all night08 harrowdown hill09 cymbal rushhttp://www.theeraser.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Greasy ass cracks thats good news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rune Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 Should be a very interesting project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 from PitchforkFirst Listen: Thom Yorke's The EraserMatthew Solarski reports:Major break-ups, deaths, and Thom Yorke records-- pretty much the only stories Pitchfork News wakes up on a weekend to break. A couple of Saturdays back, we caught wind that Yorke was planning his first-ever foray into, um, solitary territory ("i don't wanna hear that word solo," the man wrote in a W.A.S.T.E. e-mail), on a forthcoming album to be titled The Eraser. And now, we've had the distinct pleasure of hearing the album in its entirety. The Eraser is a sumptuous, Nigel Godrich-produced layer cake of plaintive piano, haunting synth squalls, and chugging guitars built atop skittish programmed beats and devoured by Thom Yorke's anguished ruminations on the pressures and paranoias attendant to fame and expectation. And no, it's not a techno record.Here's a track-by-track first glimpse at The Eraser:1. "the eraser": The title track opens with a muffled, repeated piano chord. After a few bars and a chord change, programmed beats settle in, and Thom interrupts, "Please excuse me but I got to ask," scraping the upper register. Soon, a gaggle of disembodied, moaning Thoms joins in for the chorus, which seemingly takes a cue from Morrissey: "The more you try to erase me/ The more that I appear".2. "analyse": Vocal and rolling piano lines launch this meditation on futility. "The fences that you cannot climb/ The sentences that do not rhyme," Thom laments, sad and clever all at once. And later: It gets you down/ You're just playing a part," one of many presumed jabs at self-identity. The chord progression somewhat recalls an accelerated "Knives Out", with a hesitant snare plodding along in the background, before Godrich drops in the first of The Eraser's many cinematic synth flourishes.3. "the clock": A cyclical guitar line lends this track an almost motorik vibe, albeit one evoking a leisurely Sunday drive. Click-clack beats add to the pace before the inevitable opening line: "Time is running out/ For us." By the end, Thom is humming a simple, bluesy melody over the steady but relentless rhythm.4. "black swan": Opens with an almost hip-hop beat, before a blues-inspired riff more than a little reminiscent of "I Might Be Wrong" drops in and sets the structure. "This is fucked up, fucked up," Yorke declares. Later, more identity crises are averted: "I don't care what the future holds/ 'Cause I'm right here and I'm today/ With your fingers you can touch me."5. "skip divided": Samples of Thom drawing breaths help form the percussive foundation of this dark stalker-ly declaration. Yorke's at his most conversational here, almost pub-drunk, revealing, "When you walk in a room I follow you 'round/ Like a dog/ I'm a dog, I'm a dog, I'm a dog/ I'm a lapdog/ I'm your lapdog." Creepy.6. "atoms for peace": Thom returns, all homesick alien, beseeching you: "No more going to the dark side with your flying saucer eyes/ No more falling down a wormhole that I have to pull you out," and striving for some higher octaves during the chorus: "I wanna geeet ouuut/ And make it woooork." Celestial tones underscore a warm, bumbling bassline-- a relatively minimal arrangement compared to the rest of The Eraser. "So many lies/ So feel the love come off of them/ And take me in your arms," he sings. Thom's own "You're Beautiful"?7. "and it rained all night": And it's back to the Dark Side for The Eraser's chilliest number, a tune awash in eerie synth and driven by a Joy Division-esque bassline. Thom assumes the role of the poet-observer, surrealistically detailing visions of post-downpour New York, clipped vocal samples later piggybacking the bassline. It culminates in a strained, desperate: "I can see you/ But I can never reach you."8. "harrowdown hill": Don't get thrown off by the practically post-punk opening bass riff; more haunted synth and programmed beats soon drift in and turn things nocturnal once again. "I'm coming home to make it alight/ So dry your eyes," sings Thom-- one of the most conventional, pop-esque vocal melodies on the record. "I can't take the pressure/ No one cares if you live or die/ They just want me gone/ They want me gone." The moment is suspended to make way for some riffing, which closes out the song.9. "cymbal rush": We're greeted here by what sounds like the Pac-Man death sound effect kicked down an octave kicked down an octave; then more funereal, ambient synth, along with pitter-patter programmed percussion not unlike that on "Kid A". "Try to build a wall that is high enough," sings Thom. "It's all boiling over." Finally, the climax: percussion picks up, guitar enters over melancholic piano chords, and more disembodied Thoms float about, moaning-- until all drops out for one final blip-bloop parade, which sputters out to an abrupt finish.Regarding The Eraser, Yorke also wrote "inevitably it is more beats & electronics. but its [sic] songs," and that pretty much sums it up. The record is song-oriented to a perhaps surprising degree-- no instrumentals, all tracks pretty much in the four-minute range, mostly standard time signatures-- and emphasizes the trademark textural richness of Radiohead and Godrich.The Eraser lands in stores July 11 in the U.S. (lucky Brits get it a day earlier) via XL Recordings, but for now, those of you who enjoy being puzzled, hop on over to www.theeraser.net for more (totally cryptic) album details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKMartin Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 The next best thing to a new 'Head record! I'm expecting it'll suffer from lack of Jonny. But has a high chance of being great anyway.AKM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted July 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Anyone got this yet? I had pre ordered it from play but it only arrived today Just listened to it once. Impressive for the first listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 I bought it yesterday, I'd only listened to it twice (while making and eating my tea last night)...I forgot to take it to work for a headphone inspection, but, I did like what I heard....it's not "amazing" (I didn't stop and go "fook me", when it was on in the background), but I think it's going to be a grower...some interesting percussion sounds, I do remember one "riff" that completely didn't work with the beat...I'll listen to it again, and come back to you...on the whole, not a bad LP.peep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 i heard a couple of tracks on the radio it sounded a bit like kid a era radiohead with less guitars, did like what i heard mind and shall deffo buy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted July 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 A lot of the stuff sounds quite similar to the b-sides to the Amnesiac singles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 not bad thing in my humble and irrelivent opinion! sold! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boss Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 hmmm. what i've heard just sounds like a more stripped down version of yet another radiohead record i could probably be entirely ambivalent about. always the way these days. good, but not exactly mind blowing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lime ruined my life Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 hmmm. what i've heard just sounds like a more stripped down version of yet another radiohead record i could probably be entirely ambivalent about. always the way these days. good' date=' but not exactly mind blowing.[/quote']perhaps you're just becoming increasingly more jaded and cynical? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lime ruined my life Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 I do remember one "riff" that completely didn't work with the beatmaybe YOU just didn't go with the beat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boss Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 perhaps you're just becoming increasingly more jaded and cynical?yes, and more hateful. i didn't even think it was possible! face the truth lime. thom yorke's a waistcoated style mulleted binraker, and this album reeks of saturday afternoon strolls round duthie park with a melted ice cream dribbling down your hand and a dog pissing down your leg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lime ruined my life Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 yes' date=' and more hateful. i didn't even think it was possible! face the truth lime. thom yorke's a waistcoated style mulleted binraker, and this album reeks of saturday afternoon strolls round duthie park with a melted ice cream dribbling down your hand and a dog pissing down your leg.[/quote']You face the truth. You can't fucking handle THOSE beats! that goes for everyone, you can't fucking handle these beats!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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