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Dissect

S11E8 - Reckoner by Radiohead

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.910.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Our season long dissection of Radiohead's In Rainbows continues with an analysis of "Reckoner" - the song Thom Yorke described as the thematic center of the album, the point that everything leads to and then recedes from. We'll dissect just exactly what he means by that as well as the song's incredible rhythm section and deeply moving lyrics about the human experience. Shop Dissect Season 11 Merch. Follow @dissectpodcast on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. Host/Writer/EP: Cole Cuchna Additional Analysis: Dr. Brad Osborn Song Recreations: Andrew Atwood Audio Editing: Kevin Pooler Theme Music: Birocratic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From Spotify and the Ringer, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

0:07.0

This is episode 8 of our season-long dissection of radio heads and rainbows.

0:11.0

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1:33.0

Last time I dissect, we examine In remo's sixth track,

1:38.0

a song we viewed as a kind of beautiful interlude,

1:40.0

a moment of rest that functions as a bridge between the two sides of the album.

1:45.0

About this division within In Rainbows, Tom York had said, quote,

1:48.0

In Rainbows very much explores the ideas of transients.

1:51.0

It starts in one place and ends somewhere completely different.

1:54.4

That was the only way we could fit it together, but it turned out to be a real upside in the

1:58.4

end. The first half of it is pretty raw, pretty hectic. Even though you have nude, what the lyrics are actually saying is pretty

2:04.6

messed up, nasty. After a while everything calms down and you get it out of your system. You feel better.

2:10.8

There's this feeling of elation." This shift toward calm and elation becomes very clear

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