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But actually I kind of agree about TKOL in the sense that I think it's the one of their least gloomy albums. It's because the focus is so fixed on the music, specifically the meter. It's because it's their krautrock record. The songs are still responsible for more than a few of my dopamine crashes, but it's not as intolerably depressing as Amnesiac and In Rainbows.
Hail to the Thief is peak Radiohead, to me. But even its grooviest track (myxomatosis, which is Radiohead's best song in my opinion) is filled with deeply unsettling imagery. Airbag is as close as they come to overtly optimistic, and its energy is swallowed whole by every fucking song that follows on OK Computer. Is OKC a great album? Sure! But I can't listen to "Let Down" anymore. Fuck that shit.
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