Yet, we had been warned. The Bends already harbored the seeds of this development and stratosphérisait brit-rock kind of an inaugural album, Pablo Honey, accessory addition some salutary projections (Creep, Anyone Can Play Guitar). Although warned but not cash the telluric shock of a near-perfect album with, in particular, a trio of songs absolutely unassailable: Paranoid Android, Exit Music (for a film) and Karma Police. Three tracks that go down to posterity via two singles and a loan to the soundtrack of Romeo and Juliet reviewed by Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, Australia) for Exit Music, poignant context album on cellulose media. Obviously, Karma Police is the irresistible single that we all know, no need to make a ton, the sound speaks for itself. It is useful, for cons, develop the argument when it comes Paranoid Android, musical epic unequaled today in the group's repertoire. Here Radiohead rock-rose like never before and since. Indeed song "drawers" - a format comparable to Day in the Life of the Fab Four, in Bohemian Rhapsody Queen, on One Night in Paris 10cc, etc. - Equipped with flights so that guitaristic voice (see the splendid central choir), a rich and extensive melodic vocabulary, and falling beautifully on his feet as feline artwork it is, this piece did more than seduce It capsizes listener, resulting in a still too short trip (refaimelemele) and oh (emotionally) rewarding. Yes, all that!
Inevitably, after such a feat, we say that the rest of the cake can only fade. And no. Because ALL the songs are good (11 in total over the interlude Filter Happier) because the group and its neo-producer (Nigel Goldrich, then we end up with U2 sides, REM, Air and even Paul McCartney) fomented a perfect balance between classicism and melodic sound experiments. If the email is infused for the first time in the repertoire of a group so firmly electroacoustic, it is not invasive and, instead, weaves climates, environments that benefit both to each title and the consistency of the assembly.
And grace! Because, seeing it in 1997, Radiohead is on top of the music world, creative unit (avant-garde, almost) and yet unifying, training starts, making an enormous pressure as a result of events that can only play down the capital acquired with the same opus. That was the price to pay for a long-term stroke of genius and establishing long-term, in the very closed caste groups that really matter and does make, hallelujah!, As they please.
