Year Released: 2006 Label: XL Year Bought: 2006 Thom Yorke's debut solo album came at a time when Radiohead was slightly in limbo. After the four-album run that stretched from The Bends to Amnesiac, 2003's Hail To The Thief saw the band not receive near-universal praise for the first time since their debut album ten years earlier. Having released three albums in four years, the group went on a break, but Yorke did not stop writing, hence The Eraser. For Radiohead obsessives like me this record was a lovely surprise when it came out, and it seemed to be released without a huge marketing campaign. It just sort of appeared. The nine songs that make up The Eraser feel like the electronic album Radiohead had been threatening to make for years. The album is full of muted drum machines and electronic loops, with barely an analogue instrument to be found. Even the piano chords on the title track - played by Johnny Greenwood - are processed. Yet over the top of this very cold and ar...
Pretty much every day I listen to a record from my collection randomly picked by my daughter before she goes to school. This is to justify still having hundreds of CDs (and a few cassettes and vinyl)