Vinyl Record
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - Amnesiac on LP vinyl. A 2001 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2001
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2001 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Amnesiac is Radiohead's 2001 fifth album, released less than a year after Kid A but not simply a drawer of leftovers from the same sessions. Its power comes from how differently it arranges the band's post-OK Computer break with guitar-rock certainty. Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box opens in a twitching electronic room; Pyramid Song turns piano, strings and time-feel into a floating elegy; You And Whose Army? mutates from ghostly croon to uprising; I Might Be Wrong gives the record a bluesy, looped physicality; Knives Out keeps one foot in older guitar language; Like Spinning Plates and Life In A Glasshouse push toward damaged electronics and New Orleans funeral-jazz unease. The 2001 context matters because Radiohead were still living inside the shockwave of Kid A's refusal of easy anthems. Amnesiac feels less like a manifesto and more like a half-remembered city: political dread, private disorientation, old song forms and new studio grammar meeting in rooms that never fully light up.
Amnesiac matters because it proves the Kid A era was not a single clean pivot but a wider, stranger field of possibilities. It keeps Radiohead's experimental turn in motion while allowing jazz, folk, electronics, guitar song and apocalyptic cabaret to collide without settling into one doctrine.
For collectors, Amnesiac is the essential companion to Kid A and a major Radiohead album in its own right. It belongs on the shelf as the darker, more fragmentary 2001 reflection of the same creative rupture, with Pyramid Song and Life In A Glasshouse giving it a distinct emotional identity.
Post-rock Radiohead with warped electronics, spectral piano, anxious guitar figures, jazz shadows, processed rhythms, political dread and Thom Yorke's voice moving between prayer, warning and dislocation.
Recommended for: Radiohead collectors completing the Kid A and Amnesiac period; Listeners drawn to experimental rock that still carries strong songs; Fans of albums with piano melancholy, electronic unease and jazz-coloured edges.
When was Amnesiac released? Amnesiac was released in 2001 as Radiohead's fifth studio album, following Kid A by less than a year. Is Amnesiac just leftover material from Kid A? No. It came from the wider Kid A-era sessions, but its sequencing, jazz influence, guitar pieces and haunted mood give it a separate identity. Which tracks define Amnesiac? Pyramid Song, I Might Be Wrong, Knives Out, You And Whose Army?, Like Spinning Plates and Life In A Glasshouse are central to the album's character.