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Cat: XL 987LPX. Rel: 5 Aug 19
Experimental/Electronic

Side 1 - Track 1. Traffic Side 1 - Track 2. Last I Heard (He Was Circling The Drain) Side 2 - Track 1. Twist Side 2 - Track 2. Dawn Chorus Side 3 - Track 1. I Am A Very Rude Person Side 3 - Track 2. Not The News Side 3 - Track 3. The Axe Side 4 - Track 1. Impossible Knots Side 4 - Track 2. Runwayaway Side 4 - Track 3. (Ladies & Gentlemen, Thank You For Coming)

It's taken a while, but finally Thom Yorke's impressive third solo album, "ANIMA", is available on wax (and in a fetching shade of orange, too). A future classic that continues the legacy he started with XL Recordings back in 2006 (with his solo debut The Eraser), ANIMA is well worth picking up, as Yorke and co-producer Nigel Godrich offer up evocative, off-kilter songs built around the twin attractions of the Radiohead man's distinctive vocals and skewed backing tracks rich in layered electronic noise, body-bending sub-bass, discordant synthesizer parts and intriguingly jaunty drum loops. Highlights are plentiful throughout, from the creepy, lo-fi ambient swirl of "Last I Heard (...He Was Circling the Drain)" and "Dawn Chorus" (a blissfully dewy-eyed early morning soundscape), to the low-slung, post-trip-hop hum of "I Am A Very Rude Person" and the fizzing, jazz-fired thrust of "Impossible Knots". Melancholic, yes. Deep and self-effacing, of course. Nihilistic, not really. Percussive futurist sub-pop is back.