It’s the Magical Mystery Tour of Radiohead’s catalog: a weird and wonderful detour overshadowed by the bigger and mightier albums around it. Indeed, there’s a dreamlike, occultic aura that pervades Amnesiac ( Yorke even referred to it as Radiohead’s “secret” back in the day). Thom Yorke summed up Amnesiacbest: “It sounds like finding an old chest in someone’s attic with all these notes and maps and drawings and descriptions of going to a place you cannot remember”. 20 years on, the LP remains a dark horse in Radiohead’s discography: a hidden treasure of eerie tape loops, moody vocals, and labyrinthine electronica. It was always condemned to live in Kid A’s shadow, no matter how much the band insisted it was its own album. The confusion was understandable- Amnesiac came out just eight months after Kid A (on 5 June 2001), was recorded during the same sessions, and featured an alternative version of signature Kid A track “Morning Bell”. Of course, that’s not what happened, but that’s what Amnesiac was largely mistaken for. In an alternate universe, Radiohead released Kid B, the B-sides of Kid A.
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