Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me,Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
fabulously wealthy flea!
anyway, i haven't yet listened to amok, but working with flea on purpose just seems like an obvious jump the shark moment! hope it's not true.
― Z S, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
i'm trying my best to forget that flea is involved with this whatsoever
― Z S, woensdag 20 februari 2013 1:33 (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^ I was trying to be nice, yeah, but this.
Will pop the blue pill tonight and wake up having forgotten about Flea all together.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5btg8Jiot1qcxhjoo1_500.gif
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
Only song you can tell Flea is involved is 'stuck together pieces'.
It's also one of the best in the album, go figure.
― Moka, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
Listened to this on the way in, all set to gleefully rip into it but... it sounds fantastic. Initial thoughts after one play:
- This is probably the best and most fully-formed Yorke attempt at making electronic music, well since he and Radiohead started really. It's certainly better than the King of Limbs and The Eraser.
- 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.
- Rhythmically and texturally it's fantastic, there's so much going on and so much to hook into. But it also works because it fuses glitchy electronic Yorke with cooing balladry Yorke really well, like if you put the two halves of KoL together.
- Disagree about Flea, you can hear bass guitar all over this and it certainly adds some kind of forward motion. He's probably allowed to do more than Colin is on Radiohead records as well. And no slap bass obviously.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 09:49 (eleven years ago) link
predisposed to hate this for streaming via a player with no volume control /bitchingaboutfreeshit
― ledge, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
also for quitting halfway through the first track and redirecting me to a blog in spanish!?
― ledge, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 10:04 (eleven years ago) link
I did the sensible thing and downloaded it. It's pretty kinetic and muscular and textured in a way that wouldn't come through on a stream at all, unless you had amazing computer speakers.
'Head music for people who like head music' might be a better translation
It wouldn't, it's completely meaningless.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 10:14 (eleven years ago) link
MTV Hive: With Atoms For Peace, Thom Yorke Becomes Aphex Twin’s Coldplay.
― Moka, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
flea's actually a pretty amazing musician and very capable of doing great bass parts that aren't slap n' pop
― in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
he did great slap n pop too
― administrator galina (Matt P), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not like a huge chilis guy, but for example, "scar tissue":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGObF2q63Ew
^that's just really ace melodic, in the pocket playing, wouldn't seem out of place coming from a great 60s and 70s session dude
― in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Thursday, 21 February 2013 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
bet Thom Yorke is a ton of fun
― Number None, Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
had to play session musician-like bass on this record
how humiliating to have to play like duck dunn and james jamerson
― in a chef-driven ambulance (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 February 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/articles/atoms-for-peace-amok%2C92966/
― : ; : (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 09:07 (eleven years ago) link
new vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpVfF4U75B8
who wants to go clubbing w/ me to try out a few of these moves?
― you're going home in a crispy ambulance (cajunsunday), Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
Geeky question: what's the difference between the deluxe and ordinary CDs, apart from two quid?
― djh, Thursday, 28 February 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― djh, Thursday, 28 February 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
nice grenson shoes
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Thursday, 28 February 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
ancers: Thom Yorke and Fukiko TakaseDirector: Garth JenningsChoreographer: Wayne McGregor
http://atomsforpeace.infohttp://www.facebook.com/atomsforpeacehttp://xlrecordings.com
Production Company: STK FilmsProducer: Helen PowerDirector of Photography: Nick WoodEditor: Dominic Leung @ TrimFocus: Karl HuiGaffer: Paul AllenMake up: Carol Hart
With thanks to Trinity Laban, Norton & Sons, and Grenson.
― djh, Thursday, 28 February 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
pretty weird they get styled, given it's thom yorke. i suppose a video is a video.
love grenson.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Thursday, 28 February 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder how much impact it will have on sales for the companies thanked.
― djh, Thursday, 28 February 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
i really like this record! a pretty groovy improvement on the eraser
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
didnt pay attn to this but im really feeling the essential mix
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's sick
― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
What essential mix?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 14 March 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qtckh
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 14 March 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Simon H., Thursday, 14 March 2013 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 11:11 (eleven years ago) link
I really love the first two tracks on this, can't get into the rest of it yet.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
Atoms For Peace - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix
― davey, Sunday, 2 February 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link
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.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 25 April 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
Revisiting this in hopes that new Radiohead is incoming and am really liking it a lot more than I remember to have initially.
― Austin, Monday, 2 May 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Turrican, Monday, 2 May 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
Amok is really good
― done and dusted (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 05:57 (six years ago) link
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...
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 4 May 2018 09:33 (six years ago) link
First time hearing “Hearing Damage” on a random playlist I was streaming and I thought I was listening to an Interpol song
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 5 October 2020 06:17 (three years ago) link
I didn't really get into this album beyond the first two tracks.
― chap, Monday, 5 October 2020 10:33 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/4he68b.jpg
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 5 October 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link