Choreography

Right, we're feeling especially lazy 'journalism'-wise, so we're gonna 'review' this via the medium of interpretive dance. Oh, wait no, via the medium of bullet point list:

• Thom Yorke doesn't seem like the kind of guy to engage in either choreography (Wayne McGregor's) or interpretive dance, but here he is, writhing, undulating and shaking like a possessed. We like the juxtaposition of seemingly staid and self-conscious nerdy white man twisting and thrusting.
• Tragic hat. We have never made our hatred for tragic hats known and now is not the time. However: tragic hat.
• The song, most importantly. The song is not bad. It is listenable and on second play it is mildly enjoyable BUT (and we sure we're going to get massacred or slaughtered for this comment by angry Radiohead stans who think that we just DO NOT UNDERSTAND REAL MUSIC and we have NO intelligence nor frame of reference for the STUNNING and MASTERFULLY HANDLED nods to things beyond our FEEBLE comprehension) it does sound quite a lot like Radiohead on autopilot. We feel, sonically, that we've been here before, and lyrically, like he can do better ("There's an empty space inside my heart" and "I'll set you free" sound like Kasabian or, even worse, Hard-Fi lyrics, but we do like the line about unfurling - 'unfurl' is a v. good word).

We haven't heard the album yet (we will, we are very busy people, GIVE US TIME) so maybe this is just one of the less interesting tracks, but we didn't feel, from listening, like Radiohead had explored something or somewhere new or forged ahead into an uncomfortable but rewarding (and hitherto unheard of) space. So.