In a crass attempt to attract visitors, I am pasting the link to a stream of the new Atoms for Peace album, AMOK, into this blog post. The AMOK web page has a so-called visualizer—and, reports Pitchfork: "Any site that has the link http://amok.atomsforpeace.info/ posted automatically gets added to the visualizer, which cycles through the sites randomly."
I feel compelled to point out that I am also a fan. I also feel compelled to point that a.) rather than the advertised "visualizer," the link appears to bring one to a black web page with neither text nor links, necessitating one to access the stream through the Flash player on the Pitchfork page, and that b.) having listened to the stream, I think the new album exposes Yorke's David Byrne fixation rather neatly. (He once seemed to wish he'd created the White Album; I now think he wishes he'd made Remain in Light.) Of course, the music also resembles The Eraser, not to mention the last Radiohead release, King of Limbs, a record which—like Talking Heads' Naked—was a conspicuous fall from previous heights, as each band gamely followed its respective frontman down a new and, I'm sorry, less fruitful path.
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