Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes

One Liner:  Radiohead's lead singer doing his 2014 solo album for some reason.

Wikipedia Genre: electronic, experimental rock
Home: Northhamptonshire, England.

Poster Position: 3

Both Weekends.

Thoughts: So, this is going to be weird?  Thom Yorke is, of course, the lead singer of Radiohead, one of the biggest bands in the world.  He has a few solo albums, and Tomorrow's Modern Boxes is one of them - not a new band that he is fronting.  The album was made alone, with Radiohead producer Nigel Goodrich producing, and is mainly spare electronic beats and sounds, with Thom gently singing over the top.  Like a sleepy Radiohead album from their modern catalog where the guitars take a backseat to the machines.

He originally uploaded the album only on BitTorrent in a pay-what-you-want (or don't pay at all) thing.  It became the most downloaded legal torrent of 2014, and has since also been released on vinyl, and then later on CD and on bandcamp.

Rolling Stone named it the 30th best album of 2014, and all of the reviews noted on the Wikipedia page for this album quotes several different reviewers to say that the album doesn't sound great on first listen, but "slowly unfolds" and "begins to unfurl" and "demands deep listening."  I dunno, man, just sounds like some b-sides from Amnesiac or something to me.  Feels incomplete, or throwaway, not like something that was fully formed and ready for the light of day.  Nothing seems memorable or catchy, its all smeary sadness and ominousness.

So, who knows what he is going to do on stage for an hour or hour and a half - the 8 song album is only 38 minutes long, and about ten minutes of that is "There is No Ice (for my Drink)" and "Pink Section," which are both icy weirdo instrumentals.  The ACL bio page says that this is a "stunning three-way collaborative audio visual experience from Thom Yorke, Nigel Godrich, and Tarik Barri."  So maybe they are planning to do more than just play this album straight through, and we will be getting some other weirdness to go along with it?

The top streaming track is the first one, "Brain in a Bottle," with just over 1.2 million streams.

Not a horrible track or anything, just kinda bops along under his falsetto.  FYI, that video is 9 minutes long, but the actual track is only 4:40, so the second half of that video is just going to be weird silence and more images of Thom Yorke's eyeball from too close.  So, enjoy?