Songs Of The Week #1
Thom Yorke - The Eraser Remixes I, II, III (XL, 2008)
What Happened if a dubstep hero mix a Thom Yorke’s Song? I mean Burial!!!
Mp3: THOM YORKE - And It Rained All Night (Burial Remix)
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The thing that held back The Eraser, Thom Yorke’s solo album from 2006, was its lack of ambition. For too many tracks the Radiohead singer was content to put his falsetto vocals over a skiffled, twee set of laptop beats and leave it at that. There were more successful cuts where lyrics and vocals seemed to duet with intricate effects and you’d forget Yorke’s voice sounded like a teenager apologising to his mum for wetting the bed, but it’s just a pity that four of the nine were fillers. Thus we get Burial turning the wayward ‘And It Rained All Night‘ into a Burial track, which is fine, although it’s not one of his best. Fout Tet’s go at ‘Atoms for Peace‘ adds a few more natty folktronica effects and a ‘Tongues‘ style workout at the end. Christan Vogel has two bashes at ‘Black Swan‘, the first giving more of a hulking leer and the second layering the vocal ‘this is fucked up, fucked up’ over a lurching, slightly weird beat. And Modeselektor make ‘Skip Divided‘ into more of a looming trashscape. All, as I said, fine, but exactly what you’d expect from each.Those that slide into mediocrity are The Field’s late night Essen and Trinken mix of ‘Cymbal Rush‘ and Surgeon’s remix of ‘The Clock‘. The former is a soothing minimal house loop but ditches the quirks and kooky inflections which made the original one of the best tracks on the original album. The latter is as unengaging as the original, only with a break/broken beat.
Bonus Mp3: Thom Yorke - Skip Divided (Modeselektor Remix)
Bonus MP3: Thom Yorke - Atoms For Peace (Four Tet Remix)
Tags: broken beat, Burial, Radiohead, Thom Yorke