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Atoms for Peace - Amok
"Before Your Very Eyes"
The second album in what I suppose is easiest to just call Thom Yorke's non-Radiohead body of work is very difficult to pin down. It's all based on rhythm and groove, but the music is so chilly and cerebral that it negates its own funkiness. And yet you have songs where Yorke is putting his spin on Afrobeat, or taking the essence of late '90s/early '00s Timbaland and filtering it through his distinct brand of ambient self-loathing and melancholy. It's hard to know what to do with this music — you can't quite dance to its subtle sputtering beats, and its passive-aggressive spirit is at odds with its sexy vibes — but it has a way of slowly worming itself into your mind, just like Yorke's The Eraser and Radiohead's similarly chilly The King of Limbs. —Matthew Perpetua
