The landscape of Thom Yorkes first solo album is built upon the typical electronic sound Radiohead have been moving around in the last couple of years.
The hard compressed drum loops are mixed together with a tender piano line along with a lingering and flirting guitar melody arranged in a cut and paste environment with Thoms characteristic voice on top of it all. It’s not that chocking the sound is familiar when Nigel Goodrich (he's been producing Radiohead forever now) name appears as the producer of this 9 song album.
Thom created “The Eraser” during tours when he had some time over for just playing around with his laptop. The result is in some cases really relaxed and laid back electronic music, reminding me of the best parts of “Kid A” & “Amnesiac” and in some cases just a kaleidoscopic mess with never ending drumbeats that don’t find its way forward. But I still enjoy the simplicity of it all but at the same time I have to point out that it feels like a cold drink on a sunny day in order to calm down everyone waiting for the new Radohead record.
www.theeraser.net
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