“Radiohead’s second official live album is a kinetic recreation of almost every song on their transitional sixth record. As a timepiece, its foreboding sense of unease is quite suited for the present.”
“Radiohead’s Hail To the Thief is a product of its moment: recorded in late 2002, during the American and British governments’ slow, inevitable march to Iraq, of which lead singer Thom Yorke was an outspoken opponent. Hail is filled with images of monstrous, Orwellian force from which there is no escape. On "Sit down. Stand […]”
