AMG Review of Origin of Symmetry [Japan Bonus Track]

Dean Carlson
All Music Guide

If you're going to pillage someone else's ideas, then go for broke. Because even if you find yourself crammed between the barriers of creative space, utterly at a loss for ideas, expression, or thought, you'd still have a self-respect buzzing in your ear like a mad angelic insect, putting down the newspaper and taking out a cigar to remind you that, hell, if want to sound like Radiohead when even Thom Yorke doesn't want to sound like Radiohead, you might as well take it to preposterous, bombastic, over-the-top levels. Add church organs, mental electronics, riffs bouncing off each other like the monolithic screams in #2001, and you'll finally be in position to crack skulls like coconuts and make the world's speakers ooze gooey blood. [The 2001 Japanese edition featured one bonus track.]