ANIMA
| Thom Yorke
ANIMA
Anima is the third studio album by English musician Thom Yorke, released on 27 June 2019 through XL Recordings. It was produced by Yorke's longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich, and developed through live performances and studio work. It was accompanied by a short film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson released on Netflix and in select IMAX theatres. Following the album release, Yorke embarked on an international tour. - Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The third solo album from Thom Yorke is the first one that feels complete without his band behind him. It floats through the uneasy space between societal turmoil and internal monologue.
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RollingStone
The Radiohead frontman’s new solo LP is another dose of dark magic.
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NPR
Thom Yorke's third solo album ANIMA represents a recalibration of his creative process.
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RA Reviews
The Radiohead frontman at his evocative, melancholy best.
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The Guardian
Most hum anew with unease and digital distress calls, sculpted into an uneasy alliance with beauty.
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NME
This is an artfully produced fever dream of an album that, in its doominess, suggests we should continue to pay credence to the prophet Thom Yorke.
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The Atlantic
The subconscious is an overdone subject, but the Radiohead singer’s sleep-focused solo album, Anima, is packed with fresh, freaky ideas.
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Stereogum
Even on his album about dreams, Yorke’s clearest message still seems to be wake the fuck up.
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Vulture
ANIMA, his third solo album, is a somnambulant trek into the heart of our modern darkness.
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NY Times
On his new solo album, “Anima,” the Radiohead frontman pushes beyond solitude and suggests that the dread that fills many of his songs is not all-consuming.
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Crack Magazine
Yorke is in his safe space here: it’s a more songwriterly and satisfying record than its predecessor, but there’s nothing radically new on offer, either.
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PopMatters
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke's third solo album ANIMA offers relatively peppy music to accompany his unsurprisingly bleak lyrical worldview, but it all works rather wonderfully.
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New Yorker
The album, which is Yorke’s third solo effort, is also his best.
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The Current
When you let it draw you into the sonic bath of sound, even the most skeptical fans will be won over by ANIMA.
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Variety
Thom Yorke gets sleepy — in a good, conscious way — on his latest solo effort.
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The Line of Best Fit
Beneath layers of complexity, ANIMA is some of Thom Yorke’s most beautiful work to date.
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Loud and Quiet
Finally, with ANIMA, it feels as if Yorke is realising his solo vision, from the music to the themes to the rollout – he’s done something radical enough to get out from under Radiohead’s shadow.
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Spill Magazine
The end of the world is coming, and Thom Yorke is the one who scored the masterpiece of the world’s inevitable demise.
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The Young Folks
Anima is a deep dive of both Thom Yorke’s soul and your own.
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Paste Magazine
ANIMA as a whole feels like the album Yorke wanted to make on AMOK.
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LA Times
Thom Yorke finds dread beneath the glamour of ‘Anima’
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Now Toronto
The Radiohead frontman's new solo album and Paul Thomas Anderson-directed Netflix short film are an evocative and fragmentary exploration of the dreaming unconscious.
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Louder than War
Thom Yorke follows up his soundtrack to Suspiria with his third official solo album. Produced by longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich, ANIMA is a trip into the deep recesses of sleep. Simon Tucker reviews.
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Slant Magazine
The album’s juxtaposition of lyrical techno-dread with austere, ghostly electronic music is satisfyingly unsettling.
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Medium
God damn, this is beautiful.
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The Arts Desk
Radiohead frontman's third solo album is his most convincing foray into electronica yet.
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Duluth News Tribune
Thom Yorke's latest solo album is his strongest yet.
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Toronto Sun
Thom Yorke at his experimental best on 'Anima'.
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Northern Transmissions
With ANIMA, Yorke takes his already well-built solo repertoire and adds a dash of colour, detail and mystery.
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Clash Magazine
The process seemingly thrived on capturing ideas when they were half-finished, and this ruptured, fragmented approach gives ‘ANIMA’ its character – tearing down productions, reigniting processes, this is a wild, careering feast of sound.
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The Chronicle
Over 25 years after his debut with Radiohead, Thom Yorke is continuing to push himself creatively, and with a refreshingly reflective approach he’s finally delivered the defining album of his solo career.
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mxdwn
Experimental restraint, at its best.
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Soundblab
It’s unquestionably his best album.
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Vinous
“ANIMA” is Yorke’s best solo album to date, more a companion piece to A Moon Shaped Pool than a follow-up to his solo work, despite only fleeting contributions from members of Radiohead.
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Independent Music Promotions
In a musical landscape full of ethereal textures, the master delivers his most fully realized dream soundtrack yet.
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Esquire
The Radiohead singer's masterful new album and Netflix film, ANIMA, is the year's most powerful artistic statement.
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The Fire Note
Anima isn’t just a good album, it’s a good Thom York album
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XS Noize
Thom Yorke with “Anima” may very well have created one of the top Alternative listens of the 2019 summer.
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The Independent
Yorke often tends to make his most explicit political comments outside of music. But there are moments here where you feel his rage.
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Everything is Noise
Boasting my favourite song of the year so far, as well as idiosyncratic and stand-out production, Thom Yorke sleepwalks us through nightmare-land on his new album, Anima.
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RTE
The Radiohead anti-star becomes unstuck on this perplexing new solo album.
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Cherwell
Yorke's finest solo album to date.
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Brooklyn Vegan
Thom Yorke’s ‘ANIMA’ is like a dream
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All About Jazz
Radiohead's Thom Yorke has done it again—made another album that perfectly captures the alienation, hostility and isolation of this space in time.
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The Student Playlist
While it’s concerned with well-trodden dystopian themes, ‘ANIMA’ is the first time Thom Yorke has properly expressed his identity outside of the context of Radiohead.
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Exclaim!
The textural depth of ANIMA grips, unlike past solo outings, and is ultimately even more rewarding when played on headphones.
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Financial Times
The Radiohead frontman’s new solo album is frustratingly opaque.
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Louder
Overall I enjoyed this album. It has a character of its own, even though the entire sound of it is similar to Thom’s previous projects. I just wish there was a bit more variety with a set of more drastic sound changes outside of the closing track.
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Flipboard
The subconscious is an overdone subject, but the Radiohead singer’s sleep-focused solo album, Anima, is packed with fresh, freaky ideas.
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Afterglow
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke’s long-awaited third solo album is a nightmarish yet beautiful album that contemplates the dreams and anxieties of the modern world.
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Spectrum Culture
Its revelatory beats create a full spectrum as unnerving as they are welcome.
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4 out of 5 Reviews
Seeing as that album stands tall in the collective musical ranking, ANIMA has a lot to live up to, and does so without feeling like a direct copy.
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QRO Magazine
Thom Yorke has managed to pull off having a solo career that stands independent of his ‘main gig’ in the most famous alternative act in the world.
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No Ripcord
ANIMA is also one of his consistently best albums and the one that perfectly captures the restless creative spirit that continues to push Yorke beyond his comfort zones at a time in his career where other artists would likely be happily settling into theirs.
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Mini Music Critic
The Radiohead frontman’s new solo record is easily his best one yet.
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All Music
Against all odds, Yorke's eerie electronic shimmer doesn't inspire fear so much as console; in this dark time, it's reassuring to hear a human heart beating the digital clutter.
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Sputnik Music
I think I missed something, but I'm not sure what.
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The Music
Despite wishing to erase himself from his music, Anima might be his definitive solo record.
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LemonWire
The lonely encounter with the self.
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Alt Citizen
He’s committed to pushing the envelope; navigating one new city together at a time.
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Metro Newspaper UK
Anima reflects anxiety, darkly; it doesn’t trigger it.
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The Review Geek
ANIMA is a bleak trip into dystopian madness, one well worth taking.
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Telegraph
A bleak dystopian rhapsody you can actually dance to.
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The Daily Texan
ANIMA is special not because of how the songs are put together but because it is a loop of songs that tie perfectly to each other and pushes the exploration of emotions forward.
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Hot Press
Radiohead frontman laments the state of the planet in compellingly bleak dance album.
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The Times
Electronic dissonance and howls of agony.
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