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If you listen to the two one after another, the absurdity of this notion becomes almost excruciatingly clear, though you’ll have a hard time convincing the critics. Here’s why: Amnesiac is a better album. Noticing this, people want to attribute warmth to Amnesiac: humanism retains a chokehold on the critical imagination, and people would like to hold on to the idea that if you have two things and one’s demonstrably human and the other isn’t, then the former must be the better of the two. That this is the presumption of practically every critic on the planet is a point that has not been lost on Radiohead. Amnesiac’s ventures into strictly-electronic territory make the Radiohead of Kid A look like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Whole songs on Amnesiac, “Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors” among them, owe their entire existence to technology that’s only been available for a year or two. Its bleakest lyrics venture into territory that would scorch the earth on which Kid A walks, with the possible

Human If you listen to the two one after another, the absurdity of this notion becomes almost excruciatingly clear, though you’ll have a hard time convincing the critics. Here’s why: Amnesiac is a better album. Noticing this, people want to attribute warmth to Amnesiac : humanism retains a chokehold on the critical imagination, and people would like to hold on to the idea that if you have two things and one’s demonstrably human and the other isn’t, then the former must be the better of the two. That this is the presumption of practically every critic on the planet is a poin

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