Editing Amnesiac (album) (section)

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
| MC = 75/100<ref name=Metacritic>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/amnesiac/radiohead |title=Reviews for ''Amnesiac'' by Radiohead |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=30 November 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022041904/http://www.metacritic.com/music/amnesiac/radiohead |archive-date=22 October 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name=AllMusic>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/amnesiac-mw0000001712 |title=''Amnesiac'' – Radiohead |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=23 November 2021 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123143859/http://www.allmusic.com/album/amnesiac-mw0000001712 |archive-date=23 November 2021 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev2score = C+<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.ew.com/article/2001/06/08/amnesiac |title=''Amnesiac'' |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=8 June 2001 |access-date=23 May 2012 |last=Browne |first=David |author-link=David Browne (journalist) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028094408/http://ew.com/article/2001/06/08/amnesiac-2/ |archive-date=28 October 2020 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/jun/01/shopping.artsfeatures1?INTCMP=SRCH |title=Relax: it's nothing like ''Kid A'' |work=The Guardian |location=London |issn=0261-3077 |oclc=60623878 |date=1 June 2001 |access-date=4 October 2011 |last=Thomson |first=Graeme |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715011509/http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/jun/01/shopping.artsfeatures1?INTCMP=SRCH |archive-date=15 July 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="LATimes">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-03-ca-5711-story.html |title=Traditional Radiohead Meets More Spirited Electronica |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=3 June 2001 |access-date=26 November 2015 |last=Hilburn |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Hilburn |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127053352/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jun/03/entertainment/ca-5711 |archive-date=27 November 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev5score = 8/10<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/artistKeyname/5134 |title=Radiohead : ''Amnesiac'' |magazine=NME |date=30 May 2001 |access-date=22 July 2014 |last=Segal |first=Victoria |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304124147/http://www.nme.com/reviews/artistKeyname/5134 |archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev6score = 9.0/10<ref name=Pitchfork>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6659-amnesiac/ |title=Radiohead: ''Amnesiac'' |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=4 June 2001 |access-date=18 March 2017 |last=Schreiber |first=Ryan |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161217061239/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6659-amnesiac/ |archive-date=17 December 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |title=No Kidding |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=178 |date=July 2001 |last=Eccleston |first=Danny |page=118}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name=RSreview>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/amnesiac-20010529 |title=''Amnesiac'' |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=29 May 2001 |access-date=7 February 2013 |last=Pareles |first=Jon |author-link=Jon Pareles |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619194952/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/amnesiac-20010529 |archive-date=19 June 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev9score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Radiohead |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |edition=4th |year=2004 |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/671 671–72] }}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev10score = 7/10<ref name="Spin2001">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ea8eQMnU_iIC&pg=PA123 |title=Bangers and Mash |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |volume=17 |issue=7 |issn=0886-3032 |date=July 2001 |access-date=23 July 2014 |last=Frere-Jones |first=Sasha |author-link=Sasha Frere-Jones |pages=123–24 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227000111/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ea8eQMnU_iIC&pg=PA123 |archive-date=27 December 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
}}

After Radiohead's previous album, ''Kid A'', had divided listeners, many hoped ''Amnesiac'' would return to their earlier rock sound.<ref name="Petridis-2001">{{Cite web |last=Petridis |first=Alexis |author-link=Alexis Petridis |date=1 July 2001 |title=Relax: it's nothing like ''Kid A'' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/jun/01/shopping.artsfeatures1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111180513/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/jun/01/shopping.artsfeatures1 |archive-date=11 November 2018 |access-date=11 November 2018 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref name="Pitchfork" /> The ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' titled its review "Relax: it's nothing like ''Kid A''".<ref name="Petridis-2001" /> However, ''Rolling Stone'' saw ''Amnesiac'' as a further distancing from Radiohead's earlier style,<ref name="RSreview" /> and ''Pitchfork'' found that it was nothing like their 1995 album ''[[The Bends (album)|The Bends]]''.<ref name="Pitchfork" /> ''[[Stylus Magazine|Stylus]]'' wrote that although ''Amnesiac'' was "''slightly'' more straightforward" than ''Kid A'', it "solidified the postmillennial model of Radiohead: less songs and more atmosphere, more eclectic and electronic, more paranoid, more threatening, more sublime".<ref name="Stylus Magazine-2005">{{cite web |last=Powell |first=Mike |date=18 January 2005 |title=The Top 50 albums, 2000–2005 |url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1430 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050306095656/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1430 |archive-date=6 March 2005 |access-date=1 April 2007 |website=[[Stylus Magazine]]}}</ref> Yorke felt ''Amnesiac'' was no more accessible than ''Kid A'' and would have elicited the same reactions had it been released first.<ref name="Tribune" /> In 2020, the ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' wrote that "the impenetrable ''Amnesiac'' debunked industry rumours that Radiohead were primed for a bankable comeback".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Monroe |first=Jazz |date=23 January 2020 |title=Radiohead's 40 greatest songs – ranked! |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/23/radioheads-40-greatest-songs-ranked |access-date=24 January 2020 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

On the review aggregate site [[Metacritic]], ''Amnesiac'' has a rating of 75 out of 100 based on 25 reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews".<ref name=Metacritic/> [[Robert Hilburn]] of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' felt that ''Amnesiac'', compared to ''Kid A'', was "a richer, more engaging record, its austerity and troubled vision enriched by a rousing of the human spirit".<ref name="LATimes" /> The ''Guardian'' critic [[Alexis Petridis]], who had disliked ''Kid A'', felt that ''Amnesiac'' returned Radiohead to "their role as the world's most intriguing and innovative major rock band ... [It] strikes a cunning and rewarding balance between experimentation and quality control. It's hardly easy to digest but nor is it impossible to swallow."<ref name="Petridis-2001" /> He criticised the electronic tracks "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" and "Like Spinning Plates" as self-indulgent, but praised the album's "haunting musical shifts and unconventional melodies".<ref name="Petridis-2001" /> ''Stylus'' wrote that it was "an excellent disc", but was not as "exploratory or interesting" as ''Kid A''.<ref name="Stylus Magazine-2005" />

Some dismissed ''Amnesiac'' as a collection of ''Kid A'' outtakes.<ref name="Plagenhoef-2009" /> The ''Pitchfork'' founder, Ryan Schreiber, wrote that its "questionable sequencing ... does little to hush the argument that the record is merely a thinly veiled B-sides compilation".<ref name="Pitchfork" /> Another ''Pitchfork'' writer, Scott Plagenhoef, felt the sequencing worked by creating tension, heightening the power of the more experimental tracks.<ref name="Plagenhoef-2009" /> However, he felt the more conventional marketing created a sense of "ordinariness" compared to ''Kid A'' and the impression that Radiohead had bowed to pressure from their record label.<ref name="Plagenhoef-2009" />

Some critics felt ''Amnesiac'' was less cohesive than ''Kid A''. The [[AllMusic]] critic [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] wrote that it "often plays as a hodgepodge", and that both albums "clearly derive from the same source and have the same flaws&nbsp;... The division only makes the two records seem unfocused, even if the best of both records is quite stunning."<ref name="AllMusic" /> Another AllMusic critic, Sam Samuelson, said ''Amnesiac'' was a "thrown-together" release that might have been better packaged with the live album ''I Might Be Wrong'' as a "complete ''Kid A'' sessions package".<ref name="allmusic-review">{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r559193}}</ref> Schreiber, however, felt the "highlights were undeniably worth the wait, and easily overcome its occasional patchiness".<ref name="Pitchfork" />

===Accolades===
''Amnesiac'' was nominated for the 2001 [[Mercury Music Prize]], losing to [[PJ Harvey]]'s ''[[Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea]]'', for which Yorke provided guest vocals.<ref>{{cite news |date=12 September 2001 |title=PJ Harvey wins Mercury prize – after witnessing Pentagon attack |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/12/september11.usa5 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825151639/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/12/september11.usa5 |archive-date=25 August 2013 |access-date=26 November 2011 |work=The Guardian |df=dmy-all}}</ref> It was the fourth consecutive Radiohead album nominated for a [[Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Basham |first=David |date=24 January 2002 |title=Got Charts? Creed, Eminem, No Doubt, 'NSYNC Have Something in Common |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451914/20020124/creed.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100403203135/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451914/20020124/creed.jhtml |archive-date=3 April 2010 |access-date=26 November 2011 |publisher=[[MTV News]] |df=dmy-all}}</ref> and the special edition won a [[Grammy Award for Best Recording Package]] at the [[44th Annual Grammy Awards|44th]] [[Grammy Award]]s.<ref name="2001 Grammy Award Winners" />

The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cromelin |first=Richard |date=2001-12-23 |title=The consensus top 10, plus one |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-23-ca-cromelin23-story.html |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'',<ref>{{cite news |date=December 2001 |title=The Best 50 Albums of 2001 |magazine=Q |pages=60–65}}</ref> ''[[The Wire (magazine)|The Wire]]'',<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=January 2002 |title=2001 Rewind: 50 Records of the Year |url=https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/35049/spread/40 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711024559/https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/35049/spread/40 |archive-date=11 July 2018 |access-date=23 July 2018 |magazine=The Wire |location=London |page=40 |via=[[Exact Editions]] |issue=215}}{{subscription required}}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Rolling Stone (USA) End Of Year Lists |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/rolling.htm#2001 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100723004927/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/rolling.htm |archive-date=23 July 2010 |access-date=21 July 2014 |website=Rocklist}}</ref> ''[[Kludge (magazine)|Kludge]]'',<ref>{{cite web |last=Perez |first=Arturo |title=Top 10 Albums of 2001 |url=http://www.kludgemagazine.com/articles.php?id=88 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040722004951/http://www.kludgemagazine.com/articles.php?id=88 |archive-date=22 July 2004 |access-date=24 November 2015 |website=[[Kludge (magazine)|Kludge]]}}</ref> ''[[The Village Voice]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Pazz & Jop 2001: Album Winners |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres01.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202234415/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres01.php |archive-date=2 December 2013 |access-date=7 October 2007 |website=[[The Village Voice]] |df=dmy-all}}</ref> and ''[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]]''<ref>{{cite journal |date=February 2002 |title=A.P. CRITICS POLL: THE 25 BEST ALBUMS OF 2001 |journal=[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]] |issue=#163}}</ref> named ''Amnesiac'' one of the best albums of 2001. In 2005, ''Stylus'' named it the best album of the preceding five years.<ref name="Stylus Magazine-2005" /> In 2009, ''Pitchfork'' ranked ''Amnesiac'' the 34th-best album of the 2000s<ref>{{cite web |date=1 October 2009 |title=The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 50–21 |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7709-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-50-21/2/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016153340/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7709-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-50-21/2/ |archive-date=16 October 2009 |access-date=2 June 2012 |website=Pitchfork |df=dmy-all}}</ref> and ''Rolling Stone'' ranked it the 25th.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=18 July 2011 |title=Radiohead, 'Amnesiac' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-albums-of-the-2000s-20110718/radiohead-amnesiac-20110715 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228171617/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-albums-of-the-2000s-20110718/radiohead-amnesiac-20110715 |archive-date=28 February 2014 |access-date=21 March 2014 |magazine=Rolling Stone |df=dmy-all}}</ref> It is included in the 2005 book ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]'',<ref>{{cite book |author1=Robert Dimery |title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition |author2=Michael Lydon |date=23 March 2010 |publisher=Universe |isbn=978-0-7893-2074-2}}</ref> and number 320 in the 2012 edition of ''Rolling Stone''<nowiki/>'s "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]" list.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time: Radiohead, 'Amnesiac' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/radiohead-amnesiac-19691231 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604063614/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/radiohead-amnesiac-19691231 |archive-date=4 June 2012 |access-date=2 May 2012 |magazine=Rolling Stone |df=dmy-all}}</ref> "Pyramid Song" was ranked among the best tracks of the decade by ''Rolling Stone'',<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=17 June 2011 |title=Mary J. Blige, 'Family Affair' - 100 Best Songs of the 2000s |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-songs-of-the-aughts-20110617/mary-j-blige-family-affair-20110617 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423045042/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-songs-of-the-aughts-20110617/mary-j-blige-family-affair-20110617 |archive-date=23 April 2015 |access-date=8 May 2015 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |df=dmy-all}}</ref> ''NME''<ref>{{cite web |date=6 October 2011 |title=150 Best Tracks Of The Past 15 Years |url=https://www.nme.com/list/150-best-tracks-of-the-past-15-years/248648/page/2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629013747/http://www.nme.com/list/150-best-tracks-of-the-past-15-years/248648/page/2 |archive-date=29 June 2015 |access-date=8 May 2015 |website=NME |df=dmy-all}}</ref> and ''Pitchfork''.<ref>{{cite web |date=19 August 2009 |title=The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s: 100-51 |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7691-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-100-51/5/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822115324/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7691-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-100-51/5 |archive-date=22 August 2009 |access-date=11 August 2012 |website=Pitchfork |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

=== Later reviews ===
Reviewing the 2009 reissue of ''Amnesiac'' for ''Pitchfork'', Plagenhoef wrote: "More than ''Kid A'' – and maybe more than any other LP of its time – ''Amnesiac'' is the kickoff of a messy, rewarding era&nbsp;... disconnected, self-aware, tense, eclectic, head-turning – an overload of good ideas inhibited by rules, restrictions, and conventional wisdom."<ref name="Plagenhoef-2009">{{cite web |last=Plagenhoef |first=Scott |date=26 August 2009 |title=Radiohead: ''Amnesiac: Special Collectors Edition'' |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13407-amnesiac-special-collectors-edition/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605073742/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13407-amnesiac-special-collectors-edition/ |archive-date=5 June 2012 |access-date=2 June 2012 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Writing for its 20th anniversary in 2021, ''[[The Atlantic]]'' wrote that ''Amnesiac'' might be Radiohead's best work: "Listening to it 20 years after its release, the album's grumpy wisdom — its dignity in the face of dread — feels more moving than ever."<ref name="Kornhaber-2021" /> In 2024, ''[[Consequence (publication)|Consequence]]'' wrote that ''Amnesiac'' was less universal than ''OK Computer'' and less focused and cohesive than ''Kid A'', but was a "[[Rosetta Stone|rosetta stone]] for understanding Radiohead as a whole", with its combination of ballads, rock, electronica and strings.<ref name=":0" />