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• Amnesiac, released in 2001, is Radioheads fifth studio album and a companion piece to Kid A. It blends subtle rock elements with ambient electronics, jazz flourishes, and experimental textures. The albums tracksranging from the meditative Pyramid Song to the jagged I Might Be Wrongnavigate tension, unease, and emotional ambiguity. Rather than sounding like outtakes, Amnesiac feels deliberate: it offers a different inflection on some of the same impulses that shaped Kid A, while breathing with its own identity.

  What makes Amnesiac compelling is its balance between the accessible and the abstract. Some songs land as haunting ballads; others push into jagged territory; still others wash in atmospheric drift. The album resists neat categorization, reflecting a band unafraid to explore the margins where melody, dissonance, and texture collide. Over time, its earned a reputation not just as a sibling to Kid A but as a vital part of Radioheads evolving vision.

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  Met with confusion back in 2001 Amnesiac can take its rightful place among Radioheads classics. Pitchfork Pitchfork

  After months of waiting Amnesiac finally hit store shelves it was all a lie. Pitchfork Pitchfork

  Stephen Thomas Erlewine called it a hodgepodge that clearly derives from the same source as Kid A. AllMusic AllMusic

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  AllMusic rating: AllMusic users: (7,415 votes) Read the AllMusic.com review
• Artist: Radiohead Label: XL Recordings Format: LP Units: 2 Country: Europe Genre: Pop & Rock Style: Alternative Rock, Experimental

• A1 Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box
  A2 Pyramid Song
  A3 Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors
  B1 You And Whose Army?
  B2 I Might Be Wrong
  C1 Knives Out
  C2 Morning Bell/Amnesiac
  C3 Dollars And Cents
  D1 Hunting Bears
  D2 Like Spinning Plates
  D3 Life In A Glasshouse