Amok (Atoms for Peace album)
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| Studio album by Atoms for Peace | ||
| Released | February 25, 2013 | |
| Recorded | 2010 - 2012 in Los Angeles | |
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| Length | 44:35 | |
| Label | XL | |
| Producer | Nigel Godrich | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 76/100 |
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| The A.V. Club | A- |
| Consequence of Sound | |
| The Guardian | |
| The Independent | |
| NME | (8/10) |
| Pitchfork | (6.9/10) |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Slant Magazine |  |
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Amok is the debut album by the band Atoms for Peace, released on February 25, 2013 by XL Recordings. The album features Radiohead singer Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, keyboards and programming), Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea (bass), Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich (production and programming), Joey Waronker of Beck and R.E.M. (drums), and Mauro Refosco (percussion) of Forro in the Dark.
Amok produced three singles: "Default", "Judge, Jury and Executioner" and "Before Your Very Eyes...". A music video for "Ingenue" was released via YouTube on February 28, 2013. The album received generally favourable reviews.
Atoms for Peace formed in 2009 to perform songs from Thom Yorke's 2006 album The Eraser. After the tour ended in 2010, the band spent three days jamming and recording original material in a Los Angeles studio. The members bonded over a shared love of afrobeat including Fela Kuti.
Describing his role in the sessions as "conducting", Yorke would show the band electronic music he had created and they would recreate it with live instruments. He said: "The music I do on my laptop is so angular. When you get people to play like that, it's so peculiar ... One of the things we were most excited about was ending up with a record where you weren't quite sure where the human starts and the machine ends." Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich edited and arranged the recordings from the sessions over two years, combining it with Yorke's electronic music.
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