Exit Music: How Radiohead’s OK Computer Destroyed the Art-Pop Album in Order to Save It | Pitchfork
Two months from now will be the 20th anniversary of an album that changed my life and arguably stretched the boundaries of popular rock music forevermore. Pitchfork has been rolling out content this week to celebrate the album and thus far it’s all been great. I particularly enjoyed this essay, with the highlight being these concluding lines:
“[Radiohead] were open-hearted doomsayers who pushed the disquieting power of classic art-pop at a critical time. They took advantage of the present while creating a strange balm for the future. They were smart. They were skeptical. They were lucky.”