Great idea/hate it
Sometimes a creative endeavor falls entirely flat for me – all of the checkboxes for being something I’d like are filled in, but the end result just does not work. Oddly, nearly all of Radiohead’s work falls into this category. A more recent example is Tomorrow, In a Year.
This album, an opera based on Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species, should be spectacular given that fact alone. Add to the list of things going for it the collaboration between The Knife and Planningtorock – both huge favorites – and I really did expect to be in love.
And then I listened once while in the bath and have never gone anywhere near it again. That being the case, it’s a bit of a stretch to remember exactly what the offensive aspects were but I’m pretty sure it was a shrieky, warbly mess of weirdness (in itself something I’d be just fine with on a good day.)
Thanks anyway, Tomorrow, In a Year.