“Beneath layers of complexity, ANIMA is some of Thom Yorke's most beautiful work to date”
“Thom Yorke’s biggest fault—if there is one—on ANIMA, his first proper solo album since 2014’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, is his inclusion of “Dawn Chorus,” a song so devastatingly gorgeous it threatens to overshadow the eight other tracks’ ingenious advances in glitchy electronica. “Dawn Chorus” is so mind-numbingly beautiful it doesn’t just distract from the rest of the album— it places the listene”
“The third solo album from Thom Yorke is the first one that feels complete without his band behind him. It floats through the uneasy space between societal turmoil and internal monologue.”
“ANIMA, the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed short film of the same name that accompanies this third solo record from Thom Yorke, opens with a title card that urges the viewer to play it loud. Anybody who’s caught one of Yorke’s solo shows over the last year or so will understand the sentiment even before they’ve heard ANIMA; a slew of these new songs were already on the setlist this time last year an”
“instantly recognisable musical signatures”
“Sadly, history failed to record whether Nostradamus was a smug man as well as an insightful one. Yet there must be a part of Thom Yorke – maybe he isn’t aware of it even within himself – that looks at the world that has revealed itself in the two-decades since the release of Radiohead’s breakthrough third album, ‘OK Computer’, and thinks, “told you so”. No longer melodic soothsaying. The world th”
