The band used unconventional production techniques, including natural reverberation through recording on a staircase, and no audio separation. The album's lyrics depict a world fraught with rampant consumerism, social alienation, emotional isolation and political malaise in this capacity, OK Computer has been said to have prescient insight into the mood of 21st-century life.
OK Computer 's abstract lyrics, densely layered sound and eclectic influences laid the groundwork for Radiohead's later, more experimental work. The band distanced themselves from the guitar-centred, lyrically introspective style of their previous album, The Bends. Radiohead recorded most of OK Computer in their rehearsal space in Oxfordshire and the historic mansion of St Catherine's Court in Bath in 1996 and early 1997. Radiohead self-produced the album with Nigel Godrich, an arrangement they have used for their subsequent albums. And at least he didn’t suffer any sound issues.OK Computer is the third studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released in Japan on and in the UK on 16 June 1997. But when he crooned, “The only thing that seems to make them feel alive is the struggle to survive/But the only thing that they request is something to numb the pain with until there’s nothing human left/Just random matter suspended in the dark/I hate to say it, but each other’s all we got,” there was something hopeful about his delivery, something illustrating the redemptive and unifying powers of music - and that made him the perfect Coachella main stage act. Misty’s set wasn’t exactly feelgood festival fare - his windblown, theater-of-the-absurd spectacle featured a three-piece-suited orchestra and plenty of existential lyrics about humankind’s impending doom. Update your settings here to see it.Īnd finally, back on Coachella’s biggest stage, Father John Misty - who just released one of the best albums of 2017 so far, the grandly Randy Newman-esque Pure Comedy - stunned during his spectacular sunset show (with the Lemon Twigs brothers in the audience, watching admiringly). This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.
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