EW’s staff sizes up the biggest new music of the week
Every Friday, EWs music staff takes a hard listen to the biggest new tracks and offers up our unfiltered opinions.
Read on for reviews of new tracks by Radiohead, Alicia Keys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more.
Radiohead, Burn the Witch
In this very-real age of Big Brother, no art-rock band perfectly captures the worlds collective anxiety and dread with such beauty quite like Radiohead.
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And on their comeback single, the guys are back with one of their most pristine songs ever, powered with little more than pizzicato strings, rumbling drumsand Yorkes aching falsetto, as ear-worm-y as anything on Top 40 radio.
Interestingly, Radiohead reportedly started working on Burn the Witch around 2006s game-changingIn RainbowsLPyet Yorkes nightmarish tale of persecution feels more relevant than ever now.AKevin ODonnell
