Thom Yorke – ‘Hearing Damage’

October 18, 2009 in Pitchfork

On early listens, I’m enjoying “Hearing Damage” a lot more than much of the other product from Thom Yorke’s recent “Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses” 12″, simply because it’s more direct. “Damage” is as compact as one would expect a Yorke song from Twilight: New Moon soundtrack to be: Rather than go for broke by ramping up the the dissonance, running the vocals backwards, or throwing the whole thing into some weird time signature, “Hearing Damage” remains relatively straight-laced. Its wobbled synths, formidable low-end, and echo-spiked vocals (“A tear in my brain allows the voices in,” etc.) are all wrapped up tidily in 4/4. Surely this wasn’t going to curry much favor with your niece anyways, so why try and attempt to edge out Death Cab for bedroom wall space in the face of “Meet Me on the Equinox”? [More]

[Audio http://social-digest.com/massmusic-mp3/thom-yorke-hearing-damage.mp3]

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