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“Pyramid
Song” is comparable to Radiohead’s old stuff only insofar
as it has a grand unifying design; everything on OK Computer,
even “No Surprises,” was brighter-faced than this. No one
dies or saves the universe here -- they just dream dark dreams and
see visions of a future that’s more of the same overwhelming
stuff. It’s no accident that the video for “Pyramid Song”
appears to take place underwater; the song feels like drowning. The
Romantic poets used to imagine that drowning was the most beautiful
of deaths, and who’s to say? ...none of us having been there
and come back, I mean. What’s certain is that it’s still
death, which seems to be the way we’re headed at the end of Amnesiac’s
second song.
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