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Obviously people are going to compare Thom Yorke's solo album The Eraser to his work with Radiohead, but they really are not very similar. The closest comparison you can make to it would be Kid A, but his solo album is an even greater exploration into electronica. It's filled with more drum machines and synthesizers, and much less guitar, than most of Radiohead's music. I look at The Eraser the same way I saw Billy Corgan's TheFutureEmbrace: it's a pretty good album, but not as good as the stuff he has done with his band. There are a lot of fun, entertaining songs like "And It Rained All Night" (which feels very similar to something off of Radiohead's Hail to the Thief) and "Black Swan", but none of the songs are anything mind blowing. The album is also a little on the thin side, weighing in with just nine tracks.
American V: A Hundred Highways is the first non-compilation album by Johnny Cash to be released posthumously by Rick Rubin's American Records. Overall it's a very solid album. I like the folk-vibe most of the songs have. Few of the songs have the country flavor to them that some of the American IV tracks had. But this new album also lacks some of the instant classics Cash's last album had, like "Hurt" or "Personal Jesus". This is the first album in his American Recordings series where he doesn't have any popular covers of bands like U2, Soundgarden, or Tom Petty. The only song that is familiar to me at all is "God is Gonna Cut You Down", and that's only because it was sampled in Moby's song "Run On". However, the lack of familiar tunes is not something I would criticize this album for. It's loaded with great songs, whether they're brimming with spirituality like "Help Me" or just fun tunes like "On the 309". Even after his death, it seems Johnny Cash can continue to bless us with meaningful music.
Obviously people are going to compare Thom Yorke's solo album The Eraser to his work with Radiohead, but they really are not very similar. The closest comparison you can make to it would be Kid A, but his solo album is an even greater exploration into electronica. It's filled with more drum machines and synthesizers, and much less guitar, than most of Radiohead's music. I look at The Eraser the same way I saw Billy Corgan's TheFutureEmbrace: it's a pretty good album, but not as good as the stuff he has done with his band. There are a lot of fun, entertaining songs like "And It Rained All Night" (which feels very similar to something off of Radiohead's Hail to the Thief) and "Black Swan", but none of the songs are anything mind blowing. The album is also a little on the thin side, weighing in with just nine tracks.
American V: A Hundred Highways is the first non-compilation album by Johnny Cash to be released posthumously by Rick Rubin's American Records. Overall it's a very solid album. I like the folk-vibe most of the songs have. Few of the songs have the country flavor to them that some of the American IV tracks had. But this new album also lacks some of the instant classics Cash's last album had, like "Hurt" or "Personal Jesus". This is the first album in his American Recordings series where he doesn't have any popular covers of bands like U2, Soundgarden, or Tom Petty. The only song that is familiar to me at all is "God is Gonna Cut You Down", and that's only because it was sampled in Moby's song "Run On". However, the lack of familiar tunes is not something I would criticize this album for. It's loaded with great songs, whether they're brimming with spirituality like "Help Me" or just fun tunes like "On the 309". Even after his death, it seems Johnny Cash can continue to bless us with meaningful music.
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