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Do you like scary movies? Sorry, let's be more specific. Do you like scary movies scored by Radiohead Thom Yorke? Well, you're in luck, kid: Do not look now, but there's one right behind you! AAAAAAAAHH !!!!!
Yorke's soundtrack for the new remake of the cult-classic Seventies horror flick Suspiria Jonny Greenwood's avant-orchestral opuses for his bandwagon There Will Be Blood and Phantom Thread are movie scores. Nor is it a proper sequel to his solo album, 2006's The Eraser and 2014's Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (an underrated triumph that he's finally touring widely in the U.S. next month). Instead, he's recorded an 81-minute grab bag of witching-hour instrumentals, strange grunts and gurgles, creepy monk songs-and, every so often, a drop-dead gorgeous song. "Suspirium" is a radium-glow piano ballad that would have fit nicely on Radiohead's most recent album; the jazzy soul of "Unmade" and the trip-hop shiver of "Has Ended" are even more surprising, Yorke and co.'s brilliant Amnesiacwill be B-sides.
These tunes are vintage Yorke, and they make you wish Suspiria. At least until you hear the second half of this record, where the song-songs thin out in favor of even weirder electronic buzzes. "A Choir of One" is a 14-minute descent into an icy hell; "A Soft Hand Across Your Face" and "Synthesizer Speaks" low if Bowie was an actual vampire, which makes a fair amount of sense, given that this Suspiria takes place in '77 Berlin. It's an intriguing sideways swerving for Yorke, who's still finding new ways to be satisfied with all these years of rock'n'roll.
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