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Thom Yorke · 10-27-2013, 10:37 AM

I thought it was pretty good on first listen. Second album was better than the first IMO. It did sound a bit sterile overall, but I think that's mainly due to weighing it against their other much more emotion-driven albums. They're going in a completely different direction here, so I don't think I really mind it looking at this album in a vacuum. Still, if you look at the studio versions of Here Comes the Night Time and We Exist, they sort of just sounded like neutered versions of the ones that were in that 20-minute special they did.

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Thom Yorke Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,848	I thought it was pretty good on first listen. Second album was better than the first IMO. It did sound a bit sterile overall, but I think that's mainly due to weighing it against their other much more emotion-driven albums. They're going in a completely different direction here, so I don't think I really mind it looking at this album in a vacuum. Still, if you look at the studio versions of Here Comes the Night Time and We Exist, they sort of just sounded like neutered versions of the ones that were in that 20-minute special they did.