Pitchfork has reviewed Christopher O’Riley’s newly released second tribute to Radiohead, entitled ‘Hold me to this’:
Two years after releasing his first covers album, True Love Waits, O’Riley returns with another batch, titled Hold Me to This. Compared to Mehldau, who often records as one member of a trio, O’Riley is something of a purist: His arrangements are strictly for solo piano, with no overdubs or guest musicians. These are impressionist covers, loosely translating rather than strictly transcribing tone and atmosphere into the more constrained setting. O’Riley fares best when his piano merely suggests a melody, as on “The Tourist” and “No Surprises”. Conversely, bold melodic lines don’t work very well. On “Like Spinning Plates”, while one hand plays the low, rumbling pattern, the other bangs out the central melody in glaring chords that sound altogether out of place amid the subtler texture.
Read it in full at pitchforkmedia.com
[thanks Doug]
Radiohead news on this day..
- Win tickets for Radiohead at Manchester’s LCCC – 2008
- Msg board trouble – 2005
- Radiohead mellow but don’t mention Mariah – 2004
- OK again, after spike of success – 2004
- First part of the Radiohead Story online – 2003
- Thom Yorke, “a miserable ginger dwarf”? – 2002
- Pre-Radiohead recording released – 2000
