I keep having this dream where Radiohead release a new album. Its not Kid B and no, its not TKOL pt. 2. Its a completely separate album, self-titled but with a space in the middle, so basically RADIO HEAD, and is their 10th and final album. It is a double album with 4 tracks, but none of them are shorter than 20 minutes. The tracks feature hard-hitting bongo drums, in fact the whole album is not even alt-rock but straight-up minimalism that sounds similar to some of Steve Reich's stuff, and the composition "Drumming" in particular, except the album has tons of orchestral singing and Thom's vocals are much more mellow, making it more similar to "Music for 18 Musicians" instead. And speaking of Reich, the Steve Reich ensemble is performing all the tracks on the album instead of the band members sans Thom, Ed and Johnny. Other features include Richard D. James on mechanic drums, The Hillard Ensemble on backing vocals, and the last track is a freeform EAI cacophony featuring Otomo Yoshihide and Markus Popp on electronics, and ends with a piano ballad by Thom that gets quieter and quieter until the last 5 minutes are nothing but rustles and sines, similar to Good Morning Good Night. The lyrics have tons of calls for the death of religion and decay of modern human character, and references towards old Radiohead albums, with The Bends and TKOL featuring the most lyrical and thematic references. The cover has all the Radiohead members, with Thom wearing a black hoodie covering most of his face, standing in front of an empty street with a blue hue similar to The Verve's video for Bittersweet Symphony, with a huge RADIO HEAD stamped on the top of the cover.
The album is met with a mixed reception, its panned by Pitchfork, and is a commercial failure. One week after the album's release all of the Radiohead members die in a mysterious plane crash. The album is proven to be the final nail in the coffin of rock and western art music, so much that Rock is outright banned from mainstream radioplay, and hip-hop and rap is forced as never ever before.
6 months after the album's release, Trump defeats Russia in a nuclear war and annexes the desert wastelands of Europe and announces the birth of an ancap US world government. Most of Radiohead is forgotten except for Pablo Honey and RADIO HEAD, the former being put in the programs of middle school classes for cultural study, and the latter for essential artistic study in high school and university classes.
Just thought I'd share.
Camden Ortiz
oh boy what a time to be alive
Jayden Russell
Autism
Ryder Thomas
W E W L A D W E W L A D
Gavin Garcia
Someone call up Tau-9, we got AOTY on our hands
Brandon Walker
double whammy
Kevin Torres
Thanks for sharing OP. I think this pic would serve as good back sleeve for the album.
Carter Collins
>I keep having this dream do you really?
James Garcia
>the birth of an ancap US world government god I fucking wish
Samuel Phillips
TWENTY TIMES DARKER
Ayden Parker
We should replicate this in an Sup Forums makes an album thread
Andrew Ortiz
I'm super high right now and this is fucking hilarious.
Was this before or after your Vince Staples dream?
David Turner
thought I was the only one
Jaxon Wilson
>hard-hitting bongo drums I'm fucking dying
Juan Ross
>Other features include Richard D. James on mechanic drums This had to be my favorite part
Hudson Martin
117. In any technologically advanced society the individual’s fate MUST depend on decisions that he personally cannot influence to any great extent. A technological society cannot be broken down into small, autonomous communities, because production depends on the cooperation of very large numbers of people and machines. Such a society MUST be highly organized and decisions HAVE TO be made that affect very large numbers of people. When a decision affects, say, a million people, then each of the affected individuals has, on the average, only a one-millionth share in making the decision. What usually happens in practice is that decisions are made by public officials or corporation executives, or by technical specialists, but even when the public votes on a decision the number of voters ordinarily is too large for the vote of any one individual to be significant. [17] Thus most individuals are unable to influence measurably the major decisions that affect their lives. There is no conceivable way to remedy this in a technologically advanced society. The system tries to “solve” this problem by using propaganda to make people WANT the decisions that have been made for them, but even if this “solution” were completely successful in making people feel better, it would be demeaning.
118. Conservatives and some others advocate more “local autonomy.” Local communities once did have autonomy, but such autonomy becomes less and less possible as local communities become more enmeshed with and dependent on large-scale systems like public utilities, computer networks, highway systems, the mass communications media, the modern health care system. Also operating against autonomy is the fact that technology applied in one location often affects people at other locations far way. Thus pesticide or chemical use near a creek may contaminate the water supply hundreds of miles downstream, and the greenhouse effect affects the whole world.
Christopher Roberts
Fuck this is good
Xavier Reed
maybe then scaruffi would actually like a Radiohead album