Thom Yorke / Atoms for Peace - AMOK (2013)

The bass playing on this record is up to par and goes great with the music, but it's also entirely servile and unremarkable. I just don't see why Flea, who is a bassist with a very distinctive style, had to play session musician-like bass on this record. As that's what it is.

yeah, why should flea, who is kinda a master of his instrument, get to have fun and hang out and make music non-slappin' non-poppin' with dudes who are not fuckin' kiedis?

bet Thom Yorke is a ton of fun

had to play session musician-like bass on this record

how humiliating to have to play like duck dunn and james jamerson

Part of the reason it's so great is that it sounds so WARM, whereas a lot of the time recent Yorke electronic tracks sound sketchy and half-finished and only make sense when they're played live, there's a real fullness to the sound here.

Very much otm. Crit consensus seems to be that this is "cautious"/"static" and will flesh out live, but I feel like those were the problems with The Eraser that are here solved. It's tastefully understated in a way Yorke has never really achieved prior through his awkwardly self-conscious cribbing of more traditionally "electronic" styles.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/atoms-for-peace-amok%2C92966/

new vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpVfF4U75B8

who wants to go clubbing w/ me to try out a few of these moves?

So I was pleasantly surprised by this. Enough negative to lukewarm early reactions allowed my expectations to be sufficiently lowered. It is a surprisingly warm record, though (and I can't believe I'm going to say this) but I found myself wishing for MORE Flea. There's this one little bass riff that pops up towards the end of one of the songs that just sounds go good and not showy at all.

Geeky question: what's the difference between the deluxe and ordinary CDs, apart from two quid?

Quite a nice suit he's wearing in the video. Like his willingness to look a bit silly. Slightly reminded of that Saturday night TV program (name escapes me) where minor celebrities dance with ... people who can dance well.

nice grenson shoes

ancers: Thom Yorke and Fukiko Takase
Director: Garth Jennings
Choreographer: Wayne McGregor

http://atomsforpeace.info
http://www.facebook.com/atomsforpeace
http://xlrecordings.com

Production Company: STK Films
Producer: Helen Power
Director of Photography: Nick Wood
Editor: Dominic Leung @ Trim
Focus: Karl Hui
Gaffer: Paul Allen
Make up: Carol Hart

With thanks to Trinity Laban, Norton & Sons, and Grenson.

pretty weird they get styled, given it's thom yorke. i suppose a video is a video.

love grenson.

I wonder how much impact it will have on sales for the companies thanked.

i really like this record! a pretty groovy improvement on the eraser

didnt pay attn to this but im really feeling the essential mix

yeah it's sick

What essential mix?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qtckh

Listening now. It's very cool, but the tracklist doesn't seem right? One of the first tracks is from Broadcast's Berberian Sound Studio ost and it's not listed.

Finally had some free time to listen to this one today. On first listen the title track is my favorite one in here followed by Stuck Together Pieces, Ingenue and Reverse Running (probably the best structured song in here?).

The whole thing sounded a bit homogenic to my ears but there's nothing hateable in here, also lots of detail hidden throughout it so I might need to be in the right frame of mind (or using the right amount of drugs) for me to fall in love with it. It's certainly the sort of album that I would have loved about seven years ago.

Just when I thought I was done with Thom Yorke this record pulls me back in, and not by doing anything dramatically different from the stuff I've found tiresome about him in recent years but just by doing it with such warmth and skill.

I really love the first two tracks on this, can't get into the rest of it yet.

Atoms For Peace - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix

i've been giving this album another shot, it's tough to make it through a full listen but sounds amazing when you pick two random tracks and then bail.

Revisiting this in hopes that new Radiohead is incoming and am really liking it a lot more than I remember to have initially.

It's really strange how I like a lot of what Radiohead have put out over the years, yet I find their solo albums so totally, utterly unengaging. This one is no exception.

Amok is really good

sometimes i think you are my twin in terms of the music you like, ross. almost all my recently updated bookmarked threads have been revived by you...

First time hearing “Hearing Damage” on a random playlist I was streaming and I thought I was listening to an Interpol song

I didn't really get into this album beyond the first two tracks.

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