One of the most powerful songs on Radiohead's Kid A is “How to Disappear Completely.” It’s ironically as close as the band gets to its earlier period music. Thom Yorke’s tender acoustic chords wouldn’t be out of place next to “Fake Plastic Trees,” or “Exit Music (For a Film).” But many forces led to Yorke’s wanting to disappear. Something the band mimicked in its own creative dismantlement.
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