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Thom Yorke
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“THE ERASER”
RATING: 2 SOUND LEVELS
This is Radiohead’s Thom Yorke unbound–one man, a laptop and a producer telling him he’s a genius. “The Eraser” is the flower of the experimental electronic impulses Yorke announced on the four Radiohead albums that tottered after the band’s “OK Computer” peak. There are hardly any songs here–just blips and bleeps, gurgles, strangled falsetto vocalizing and static noise, seemingly designed to burn off any lingering dilettantes from the Radiohead fan club. It’s the sound of a GameBoy in a deep fryer. Of the nine tracks, “Harrowdown Hill” is worth a return visit. If only there were a few more like it.