Joshua Bright for The New York Times Thom Yorke performing with Atoms for Peace, which released a new album on Tuesday.This week: Jon Pareles, The Times’s chief pop music critic, talks to host Ben Ratliff about “Amok,†the new album by Atoms for Peace. The quintet is, at heart, a collaboration between Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and his longtime producer Nigel Godrich.
Atoms for Peace rests somewhere uneasily between progressive rock and electronic dance-music; it’s as dependent on aggressive and transformative post-production as it is on the creation of tracks by people playing instruments â€" but where does that process come from, and what does it signify
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Jon Pareles’s review of “Amokâ€
Ben Sisario’s review of a 2009 Atoms for Peace performance.
A Reddit interview with Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich
SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
Tracks by artists discussed this week. (Spotify users can also find it here.)
