Thom Yorke creates dystopian rapture that’s perfect for our terrifying times on ‘Anima.’ Read Rob Sheffield's review
as “dystopian,” which isn’t exactly the hugest surprise in the world. With or without Radiohead, he’s spent his whole career mapping out the dystopia we’re living in—he does futuristic apocalypse the way John Fogerty does choogle. Yorke could have spent the entire record freestyling new verses for “Old Town Road” and it still would have turned out dystopian. But nobody could accuse him of overreacting.
The prize is “Dawn Chorus,” a title well known to Radiohead fans as an unrecorded bootleg track dating back to theera. It’s complex but sparse, with a lonesome phased keyboard drone while Yorke murmurs as if waking up from a dream: “I think I miss something, but I’m not sure what.” It makes a striking contrast with the killer finale, “Runawayaway.
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