Amok (CD) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Label: XL Recordings – XLCD583
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK, Europe & US
Released: Feb 26, 2013
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: IDM, Indie Rock

1        Before Your Very Eyes...    5:48
2        Default    5:16
3        Ingenue    4:31
4        Dropped    4:57
5        Unless    4:40
6        Stuck Together Pieces    5:28
7        Judge Jury And Executioner    3:30
8        Reverse Running    5:06
9        Amok    5:25

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Unsustainabubble Ltd
Copyright © – Unsustainabubble Ltd
Licensed To – XL Recordings Ltd.
Recorded At – The Hospital
Recorded At – Ocean Way Recording
Mastered At – Bernie Grundman Mastering
Published By – Kobalt Music Group Limited
Published By – Al Herbert Music
Published By – Fluff Ball Music
Published By – Seven Waves Music
Pressed By – Arvato, USA – 80706121
Artwork [Lost Angeles Lost] – Stanley Donwood
Bass – Flea
Drums – Joey Waronker
Engineer [Additional] – Drew Brown
Engineer [Live Recording] – Darrell Thorp
Mastered By – Brian Gardner
Percussion – Mauro Refosco
Producer, Programmed By – Nigel Godrich
Vocals, Keyboards, Programmed By, Guitar – Thom Yorke
Issued in a gatefold card sleeve (Unipak-style) with a printed inner pocket sleeve.
Promotional copies are marked with a large track-list sticker on the back and a small sticker with artist and title on the front. See Images.

Recorded in Los Angeles and London at The Hospital, Joey's and Ocean Way. Mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering.

Thanks to Jun & Rico Takahashi & to Lizzie for making us so welcome.

P&C 2013 Unsustainabubble Ltd under exclusive license to XL Recordings Ltd. Published by Kobalt Music Group Ltd, Al Herbert Music, Fluff Ball Music and Seven Waves Music.

CD comes in gatefold thin cardboard sleeve.
Barcode (Text): 6 34904 05832 6
Barcode (EAN-Code, Scanned): 0634904058326

Personnel: Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming); Joey Waronker (drums); Mauro Refosco (percussion); Nigel Godrich (programming). Recording information: Joey's; ocean way; The Hospital. Unknown Contributor Role: Stanley Donwood. Thom Yorke's Atoms for Peace involves longtime Radiohead engineer/producer Nigel Godrich (Ultra?sta) and bassist Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), as well as two session veterans in drummer Joey Waronker (R.E.M., Ultra?sta) and percussionist Mauro Refosco (Forro in the Dark). For their first public performance, back in 2009, they performed Yorke's Godrich-assisted 2006 album The Eraser in its entirety, as well as some fresh material. Over three years later, they've come up with this, a product of jam sessions formed -- by Yorke and Godrich -- into a uniform nine-track album. It sounds more like a fleshier successor to Yorke's first solo album than it does a first step, and it's presented that way, from Stanley Donwood's woodcut illustrations to the band's name -- the same as a track title on The Eraser. Due to the nature of the recording process, the material is more about sounds -- rippling rhythms, more specifically -- than songs. Attempting to discern the organic from the mutated and the processed is a fool's errand yet part of the appeal. Listeners will be either unnerved or fascinated by the use of Flea's low-throbbing lines, which add warmth, rarely propel, and are sometimes obscured beneath piles of shifting percussion. Given all the thick layering of sounds, Yorke's words -- normally enunciated and mixed in such a way to enable transcription with only a slight headache as a reward -- tend to act as another element rather than as a focal point. The lyrics probably weren't written at the bassist's house after some drunken pool playing. They're in typical Yorke character, consisting of vaguely conveyed altercations and conflicts: "You got me into this mess," "I couldn't care less," "But it's eating me up," "They try to jump me," "Go back to where you came from," "I'm like the wind and my anger will disperse." In other words, this is another Thom Yorke solo album, and it sounds really nice on decent headphones. ~ Andy Kellman

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: CD standard Digipak
• Format: CD
• Genre: ALT/INDIE
• Format Type: CD
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**
• Released: 2/26/13
• Internal ID: JITRE