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First two or the two preceding, eric?

I can go on and on about how you can't hate HTTT and like IR when the latter sounds merely like a continuation in many aspects, but i'll just say the Gloaming is, as eric said, a great moody piece, more about it's ambiance and tone than narrative or shifts. I think it sets a great mood, especially considering what the gloaming is, the fact that it refers to being based in "the witching hour," and that it really sets the context for the whole album, in a sense.

I think Backdrifts, though not their most dramatic track, is a very catchy little piece, though maybe not the best on the album.

Myxomatosis has a similar approach, not in understatement but in being really catchy. I like the off-kilter rhythm of the song combined with the reverb of the synths and guitars, as well as the fact that you have organic drumming with technology-based synthesizers, and Thom Yorke's admission that "i don't know why i feel so tongue ties"-- it all culminates to this queasy feeling, being entirely ambivalent in a bad way, uncertain of what way to go or what to say. It could just as easily by used as some sort of military spy sequence as it could at a kid's party where he can't talk to a girl. If we ignore the verses, that is, which i am not so familiar with.

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