{"id":8904,"date":"2013-02-06T15:51:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8904"},"modified":"2013-05-06T20:57:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T03:57:46","slug":"atoms-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/02\/atoms-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Atoms for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8905\" title=\"Amok-M-Review-No24\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Amok-M-Review-No24.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Amok-M-Review-No24.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Amok-M-Review-No24-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>ATOMS FOR PEACE<strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Amok<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[xl]<\/p>\n<p>When Thom Yorke needed musicians to back him on a 2009 solo tour, the Radiohead frontman laid the foundation for one of the more puzzling supergroups in recent memory. Among those he enlisted was Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, a perpetually shirtless slap-and-pop funkateer whose people-pleasing main band couldn\u2019t differ more from Yorke\u2019s. The other members\u2014producer Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Paul McCartney), drummer Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M., Elliott Smith) and percussionist Mauro Refosco\u2014made more sense, but fans were left to wonder what the quintet would come up with. Perhaps not surprisingly, <em>Amok<\/em>, the product of a three-day jam session, shares much in common with <em>The Eraser<\/em>, the Yorke disc that brought the gang together. The sound is antsy, airy electronic art-rock\u2014a blend of brittle drumbeats, rattling percussion, restrained bass, creeping synths and Yorke\u2019s yawning vocals. The singer has said he wanted to make a dance record, and if those water-drop noises on \u201cIngenue\u201d aren\u2019t exactly sexy, the song has a cyborg sensuality that suggests rock\u2019s ultimate intellectual grump is fixing to get his freak on.<\/p>\n<p>On \u201cStuck Together Pieces\u201d\u2014perhaps a meta-comment on the band itself\u2014Flea shucks off his lab coat and lays down the disc\u2019s slinkiest bass line. \u201cGo back to what you came from \/ Go back to what you know,\u201d Yorke sings. In time, he and the others will do just that, and when they do, they\u2019ll be able to look back with pride.\u00a0Better than mere curio, <em>Amok <\/em>is a grower with grooves worth revisiting. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATOMS FOR PEACE Amok [xl] When Thom Yorke needed musicians to back him on a 2009 solo tour, the Radiohead frontman laid the foundation for one of the more puzzling supergroups in recent memory. Among those he enlisted was Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, a perpetually shirtless slap-and-pop funkateer whose people-pleasing main band couldn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,5977,5976,4578,811,5979,5885,5981,5982,5980,1673,2120,1186,4557,5984,5983,5978,4089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8904"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9581,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions\/9581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}