The calmest Radiohead album. Unlike Kid A's id you can hear guitars and the singing has a human presence. At least one song is shared between the two albums (in two different versions), and Thom Yorke said they were twins separated at birth. The music is dreamy and soft, not as depressing or ominous as Radiohead sometimes is. The songs flow like syrup or molasses, not fully existing but approaching something like existence as they are played. The orange soundscape is a mostly unpopulated space with elements floating in, out of, and through it without regard to anything except the rhythm, which is an ebb and flow more than a beat. Even the tape hiss is an instrument.
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