Jonny Greenwood — Bodysong

Bodysong

EMI

Andy Lee (CHARTattack)

12/19/2003 11:21am

At last report, Radiohead were seen drifting further and further away from their guitar glory days circa OK Computer. Depending on your feelings towards Hail To The Thief, you have resident musical anarchist Jonny Greenwood to partly thank or blame for the band’s new musical direction.

For the score to the experimental film Bodysong, Greenwood lets his guitar continue to gather dust while indulging in his fetish for ambient electronica. Tiny noises, clicks, throbbing bass, glockenspiel, jazz trumpet and the sad sawing of violin strings all float in and out of this mesmerizing recording, which incidentally also doubles as a fine companion for drinking oneself into oblivion with a fat bottle of Japanese whisky.