Covering one of the great Radiohead tracks. In theory what Exit Music are doing is horrific, in practice it’s much worse. Christ, I can see Thom Yorke cringing now.

Basically, Just has been stripped down. Johnny Greenwood’s infamous ascending guitar wizardry has been replaced by - wait for it - a brass section. A half arsed brass section. And Phantom Planet’s Alex California-here-we-come Greenwald has been drafted in to perform Thom's job. As if. There is very little definition between the different sections of the song and the listener is left with a flaccid, half-baked hellish misery.

If you're going to tamper with Radiohead then you've got to be very, very clever (see Four Tet's remix of Scatterbrain), Exit Music are not. This cringingly bad piece of music raises more questions than it answers, principally, ‘why’? Obviously this heinous musical crime was committed for a reason, but that reason is far beyond me.

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