I've had an idea: I am a huge Radiohead fan and I pride them as being a band I have really connected with in the past. That would make me usually biased on their material. So, I suggested to myself to review the new single off the upcoming "Amnesiac" LP after one listen, and put down what I thought from that alone…I, like Radiohead themselves, like my concepts…

This is a difficult song. It's almost an anti-single, in the same way Paranoid Android failed to be. Content with making music that can be quite distressing to listen to, the band still always have that big toe bathing in the popular music pie. They know how to be outrageous in the world of sensible rock, but some how make these ideas listen-able. And this is a difficult song, but somehow it is surprisingly easy on the ear. My first impression came with the entry of the piece's piano line. It is like a lead holding on to the song's conclusion that never seems to appear. The words "a road to nowhere" spring into my mind. The piano growls quietly, and before long it's obvious how much Aphex Twin and the like have affected them. Every muscle of the musical frame sounds taut and lost yet very pretty in a strange way. The beat is changing around the melody, the whole body of the song flexing together. Thom's voice is the next building block to this minimalist epic. Like Kid A, his misty, piercing voice becomes more an instrument. It sounds rich and strong and nowhere near as desperate as it has done. I wouldn't have been surprised to hear this song on Kid A, it is full of Warp ambience but this time has a knowing majesty that Morning Bell could only hope to be. What started as a fairly standard disjointed concept turned into a massive soundscape of heroic strings. I have this image of blades of grass plucking the tune between their stems only for the whole landscape to split and begin to move. The Pyramid Song was a surreal listen. I couldn't get away to how it mounted into an insupportable mass of a song, rising like a dinosaur from the sea without ever really changing so much as to shock you. This by no way means I liked it. I'm still thinking; "How good is this song"? While I have these thoughts and this image of what I believe the song to be, then the answer is certainly yes…But, another day or to someone else, it could all mean nothing but a dreary piano line and Thom saying mildly interesting things incoherently…

It would appear Radiohead are back again. I'm already waiting for the backlash….