This is one of my favourite albums from Radiohead. It's so different from other British rock bands and it takes a while before it actually hits you with it's brilliance. Pyramid Song, Knives Out, Like Spinning Plates, Life In A Glasshouse, I Might Be Wrong, Dollars and Cents are all outstanding songs and the rest are great. This album is better than Kid A and I also reccommend OK Computer, Hail To The Thief, In Rainbows AND The Bends to purchase.

Radiohead pulled off a marketing masterstroke on the release of this album, claiming that it was recorded at exactly the same time as the Kid A sessions. This inevitably forced many a critic to scoff into their hats: "What's this? Recorded at the same time as the Kid A album which we adored so much, in that case we cannot say this is anything less than a TWIN masterpiece or else we'll sacrifice our integrity".

Some critics got round this by simply palming Amnesiac off as an album of respectful B-Sides but the truth is very different. The Pinochio that wanted to be a real boy is in fact a very real boy and some of the tracks on this album even tower above those found on it's slightly older sibling.

Although you cannot deny that one or two of the tracks on here are at times forced and down right pretentious, almost as if Radiohead are playing up to their "Going against the grain" shenanigans, for this it loses points. That said, it is still well worth the listen.