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Feb 25, 2013In other words, this is another Thom Yorke solo album, and it sounds really nice on decent headphones.
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Feb 25, 2013For all the rhythmic chicanery at play, AMOK feels strangely static and contained, giving a perpetual sense of jogging in place.
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UncutFeb 7, 2013This seamless synthesis of sinew and silicon is crucial to the album's slippery feel: there's a pleasing fluidity and crooked funkiness to the arrangements that Yorke sometimes struggled to achieve on The Eraser. [Mar 2013, p.66]
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MojoFeb 7, 2013Amok Achieves a seductive unity of purpose which is all the more impressive for stemming from the advent of additional personnel. [Mar 2013, p.84]
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Q MagazineFeb 8, 2013Amok shows Yorke successfully synthesizing his obsessions into a compelling and complete universe. [Mar 2013, p.92]
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Feb 26, 2013Yet the easy chemistry between everyone on Amok means that more often than not the record is beautiful.
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Feb 19, 2013[Amok is] the warmest, grooviest album Yorke has ever made--nine songs where next-level laptop science collides with wild, funky improvisation.
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Feb 20, 2013While Atoms For Peace inevitably doesn’t display that unique chemistry which is evident in spades when Mssrs Selway, Greenwood et al join the party, it remains an intriguing, if at times uneasy listen.
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Feb 27, 2013AMOK is an album you'll need to spend time unpacking, which means it's cut from the same cloth as every good Radiohead album. But with this one, maybe you'll get to dance a little along the way.
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Feb 25, 2013Amok is, above all, a very pleasurable listen, basically just the sound of some talented middle aged dudes enjoying themselves. Let it wash over you, and you’ll enjoy it too.
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Feb 26, 2013The chief difference between AMOK and The King Of Limbs is how alive and invested AMOK sounds, almost as if it’s a do-over of the frequently airless Limbs.
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Feb 25, 2013Amok might not be easy--why should it be?--but it’s never anything less than interesting, an accolade that can rarely be applied to artists this far into their career.
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Feb 21, 2013It’s a dense work that’ll be discovered thriving equally happily in the niche of teenage bedrooms as in underground cults and a nebulous haze of mushrooming Mixcloud communiqués extending over the horizon.
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Feb 20, 2013Amok is missing the end-of-days urgency of Yorke's paranoid-android persona--and despite Flea's presence, it could be filed under "anti-funk."
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Feb 22, 2013Yorke and Godrich have quite ironically produced a fairly solid, if not stellar, Radiohead album.
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Feb 19, 2013Anyone hoping for 'The Eraser' to fledge further results will be similarly dumbfounded. But taken at token value, Amok is a very fine work indeed.
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Alternative PressFeb 7, 2013It'll take a while to sink its clawed into you, but once it does, it won't let go. [Mar 2013, p.88]
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Mar 6, 2013Although Yorke’s songwriting prowess is still very strong, this record is by no means perfect.
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MagnetMar 15, 2013True, nothing here ever astonishes, but coming from such a unique voice, the familiar bests most else. [No. 96, p.51]
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Feb 19, 2013As ever with Yorke's work, a strong desire not to get stuck in a rut results in a few experiments that don't quite pay off, but largely, AMOK is a slender, admirable record well worth investigating.
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Feb 26, 2013AMOK is heady dance music, in love with its jittery rhythms but never content to give over to them completely.
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Feb 25, 2013The songs don’t prize catchiness; they’re too busy tweaking and interweaving, toying with texture and momentum.... Yet at the same time, there’s sheer exhilaration in the profusion of rhythms.
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Oct 4, 2013While not as inscrutable as Yorke's finest work, Amok brings him one step closer to blurring that distinction between man and machine.
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Feb 7, 2013While Amok--like The Eraser--is unlikely to arouse the same passions as, for instance, In Rainbows, it’s an often fulfilling and fascinating indulgence.
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Feb 19, 2013Amok isn’t an album to be analyzed so much as experienced, preferably with headphones maximizing its occasionally mesmeric effect.
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Feb 27, 2013As a product of Yorke’s mind, AMOK represents a measurable progression over The Eraser. It’s more experimental, varied, nuanced, and likeable.
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Feb 26, 2013Awash with beats, rhythms, electronics, the occasional guitar and Yorke's soaring if still mostly unintelligible tenor, Amok is a record to get sonically lost within, a work whose every measure teems with a quality and a precision that only musicians at the top of their game can touch.
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Mar 22, 2013Amok is a tenaciously rich and strong album that is certainly the work of gifted musicians.
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Feb 26, 2013AMOK is as heady and immersive as any great Radiohead album, but those comparisons eventually wilt: Yorke's new band has discovered a symmetry all its own.
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Feb 22, 2013AMOK is a surprisingly unassuming album in that way; each song has worthwhile hooks and accessibility is favored over abstract experiments.
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Feb 27, 2013Amok ends up sounding enormous through its mingling of analog and digital sounds. It’s intricately assembled, with more pieces to pick apart than on The Eraser, which feels a bit timid in comparison
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Feb 25, 2013As technical achievement, Amok is an amazing album in many ways. As a collection of songs, it’s as slippery as its rhythms.
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Mar 15, 2013Producer Nigel Godrich has made of this a modern masterclass--and one that sets the bar for collaborations extremely high.
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Feb 25, 2013AMOK isn’t quite dazzling, but it’s a clear improvement on its predecessor, and more than enough to win over old fans--and perhaps a few new ones, too.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 99 out of 112
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Mixed: 11 out of 112
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Negative: 2 out of 112
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