First Listen: Thom Yorke’s The Eraser

Posted on May 24th, 2006.

Pitchfork has the first review of Thom Yorke’s The Eraser: The Eraser is a sumptuous, Nigel Godrich-produced layer cake of plaintive piano, haunting synth squalls, and chugging guitars built atop skittish programmed beats and devoured by Thom Yorke’s anguished ruminations on the pressures and paranoias attendant to fame and expectation. And no, it’s not a techno record.

Regarding The Eraser, Yorke also wrote “inevitably it is more beats & electronics. but its [sic] songs,” and that pretty much sums it up. The record is song-oriented to a perhaps surprising degree– no instrumentals, all tracks pretty much in the four-minute range, mostly standard time signatures– and emphasizes the trademark textural richness of Radiohead and Godrich.[read the track-by-track first glimpse]

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