Thom Yorke - The Eraser

He of Radiohead, he of the Roald Dahl school of name spelling, he of the lazy eye. Thom Yorke branches out, much to the relief of his 'head colleagues, says he, to muck about with electronic stuff and mumble his groany moany lyrics o'er the top of 'em. It's like a kid in a bedroom with a Bontempi and a rhyming dictionary, only it's a bit better cos it's Thom Yorke, of Radiohead. The melodies, such as they are, are from the school of 'head. So, it's like Paranoid Android straddled to a Casio drumbeat. Which is, of course, Trio doing Da Da Da Da. Only, it's a bit better than that, cos it's Thom Yorke, of Radiohead. Well, he's got it out of his system, so we can now look forward to the 'head's new CD with a sense of relief that they use guitars and proper drum kits and none of this new-fangled bleepy dancey sequencing bullshit equipment that ruins modern music. Blimey, whatever next? A handbag house remix of Creep with samples of ferret barking? Or Erasure releasing an album called Thomyorke? Actually, I jest, this is pretty pretty pretty good.