Jazz Articles about Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke: ANIMA

by Don Phipps
July 12, 2019

Radiohead's Thom Yorke has done it again—made another album that perfectly captures the alienation, hostility and isolation of this space in time. As the music on Yorke's ANIMA makes clear, the ability to stay optimistic about the future of any number of things—the human race, civilization, institutions, personal relationships—is likely a lost art. Instead, what remains is a dark and disturbing dystopia, an Orwellian nightmare of the first (and last) order where emotions are relegated to emoji and life is ...