A touching collection, Not Erased but Enlightened...
The cold wind and bright lights that I experience in my dreams listening to this album grow stronger everyday, which shows how much this album, no sorry, this art has grown, and continues to grow and festers in the feelings of depression and relief that I didn't even think existed, but like your best friend and therapist, it's there easing you through and taking you on an experience within yourself.
Thom Yorke is a man to be admired, and as this album shows, he takes you on a tour of the mind, the sounds, the harmonies, the drones, the moans, the lyrics, they all join in the end and create a masterpiece that only one solitary man could have created. The tearful ending to the opening track is a reminder of the terrible things that could happen to you in life, and the tracks following seem to go through the processes that we as people go through when we grieve and have to adapt, as a human being I understand these processes, which when expressed through such a medium, makes me realise how much emotion effects music, and how much music effects emotion. And don't think this album is depressing from the start, I do agree that it can be, but wasn't Mr. Brightside by The Killers deemed a depressing 'break-up song'? Yes.
Understand that the feeling that went into this album is deeper, not sadder, just deeper and like Thom Yorke has always done throughout his career with Radiohead, he has opened my eyes, with these songs in my head I see things differently. However, I can recover from the mind drugs if I stepped out of the deep pool and into the more fun 'shallow' pool of music that contains more fire and forget songs like most Club and Indie music.
Overall, I still can't waver the fact that this album wasn't the best idea, I became so scared that Radiohead were over! But that being said, I'm glad they didn't split up, and listening to In Rainbows reminded me of this album, I dusted it off and listened to again, and like a movie I half watched, I noticed something new, I liked it, and I understand, I think that's all that I was meant to do.
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