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1993
Radiohead's debut album Pablo Honey is a promising collection that blends U2's anthemic rock with long, atmospheric instrumental passages and an enthralling triple-guitar attack that is alternately gentle and bracingly noisy. The group has difficulty writing a set of songs that are as compelling as their sound, but when they do hit the mark -- such as on "Anyone Can Play Guitar," "Blow Out," and the self-loathing breakthrough single "Creep" -- the band achieves a rare power that is both visceral and intelligent. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide
Groupe fétiche de la presse musicale britannique, composé de 5 oxfordiens, dont 3 guitaristes - Riffs de guitare fougeux et explosifs, mélodies frappantes... More by accident, perhaps, than design, Oxford's Radiohead have forged a link between today's grunge sound and that unjustly neglected West Coast classic, Spirit's The Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus. That this hitherto unsuspected connection takes a detour via early U2 and Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd bespeaks either Radiohead's eclecticism or confirms the nagging fear that all the tunes have been used up and wholesale recycling is under way in even the hippest corners of indiedom. Theirs is a self-preoccupied sound, morosely resentful of romantic failure and finding solace only in giving the axe a spanking. Despite the attempted uplift of Ripcord, Creep, Prove Yourself and Anyone Can Play Guitar, the way lyricist Thom Yorke sings it, British teenagerhood has never been grumpier. Grumpiness enlivened by the odd shaft of self-mockery, is not an easy mood to curl up with of an evening. The vigour of Radiohead live loses a great deal of fun in translation to plastic, but the best bits rival Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr. and even the mighty Sugar. |
