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(More customer reviews)Radiohead has earned a unique following and fanbase unlike any other in the world. "Radiohead: And the Resistant Concept Album, How to Disappear Completely" looks at the approach from the British band on the their concept animals and their deeper meaning in analysis of their ideas and opinions of alienation and anticapitalism. Stating that the band has departed from the usual path of the concept album, Marianne Tatom Letts provides quite the intriguing analysis of the music and the band. "Radiohead" is a must for fans of the band or students of contemporary alternative rock and its themes.
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How the British rock band Radiohead subverts the idea of the conceptalbum in order to articulate themes of alienation and anti-capitalism is the focusof Marianne Tatom Letts's analysis of Kid A and Amnesiac. These experimental albumsmarked a departure from the band's standard guitar-driven base layered with complexproduction effects. Considering the albums in the context of the band's earlierreleases, Letts explores the motivations behind this change. She places the twoalbums within the concept-album/progressive-rock tradition and shows how both resistthat tradition. Unlike most critics of Radiohead, who focus on the band's lyrics,videos, sociological importance, or audience reception, Letts focuses on the musicitself. She investigates Radiohead's ambivalence toward its own success, asmanifested in the vanishing subject of Kid A on these two albums. (2011)
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