Joepie,
de nieuwe Radiohead is er bijna!
In afwachting kan ik mij nog efkes concentreren op één van hun vorige (hoewel niet mijn favoriete) met de hulp van dit boek:
Radiohead: Welcome to the Machine
by Tim Footman (Chrome Dreams, £12.99)
Oh my God, Radiohead killed indie! The bastards! They also killed the classic rock album, this book argues, by making the last one it would ever be possible to make. Lucky it's such a scintillating record, then. We are talking, of course, about OK Computer. Tim Footman's enjoyable and witty book, written in a kind of gonzo-nerd style, is a track-by-track analysis, buttressed by studio and tour stories, readings of the videos and accounts of the songs' influences: "Take a half-remembered creative writing assignment inspired by a surreal science-fiction poem, a 27-year-old piece of jazz rock created by a man in insane sunglases, attempt to copy them both, and fail." Footman spends a few blissfully eccentric pages in close analysis of the CD booklet, happily brings Eliot and Dostoevsky into the discussion, and worries at the lyrics: "the notion of a karma police force is nonsensical," he points out, deadpan. The book ends by considering OK Computer's critical afterlife, and its follow-ups. One could have wished for more time spent on the album itself - the actual evocation of the music can be hurried, though a long, passionate defence of the closing triangle note is both alert to its own absurdity and wonderfully convincing.*
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