★★★★★
Sound: Possibly the album that saved Radiohead? Without this dark, sinister solo album from Thom Yorke, Radiohead may well have gone their separate ways, so even if the album is terrible it's probably allowed more genius to arrive. Lucky it isn't bad, in fact, it's very good. 'The Eraser', expect thousands of Radiohead 'fans' to say, "yeah it's brilliant" when in fact they think it's terrible...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Thom Yorke is given so much credit for Radiohead's sound that you might assume there wouldn't be much difference between a Yorke solo record and a full band effort. Well, you've heard what happens when you assume something. "The Eraser" doesn't sound like a Radiohead record. Sure, there are similarities--the biggest, of course, is Yorke's frail, paranoid vocal delivery. Besides that, however, this is a CD that manages to stand apart from the band's catalog...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
From the outset Thom Yorke was in a no win situation in detractors' eyes by making 'The Eraser.' Release a 'techno album' of weird squelchy noises and bleeps and he's disappearing too far up his own rectal passage. Conversely, release a work of unadulterated guitar-driven songs and he's back stepping from the forward-thinking experimentation of the previous three Radiohead albums...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Thom Yorke is the pen, voice and soul of the rock group Radiohead -- he has released a solo album The Eraser and that is where this story begins. Abandoning his guitar get-along gang for the cold warmth of his computer and under-hyping an album that should be plastering the walls and buses of your local city, the anxiety-ridden and morose Yorke cuts to the core of the dark state of humanity, unapologetically commenting on the zombies that were once humans...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Thom Yorke insisted, ahead of the release of his first solo album The Eraser, that he "don't wanna hear that word solo". The Radiohead front man nevertheless wrote, played and recorded these nine tracks of electronica on his own, with the producing assistance of Nigel Godrich, during a lull in his band's creativity.Radiohead purists who believe the band and its members should only ever regurgitate The Bends in perpetuum are unlikely to find The Eraser easy listening...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
For a man so consumed with rage and electrocuted by fear for the future of the globe, Thom Yorke has been curiously selective in his efforts to smash the system. Having reliably baulked at an opportunity to rail the global superpowers at the somewhat overblown Live 8 event last summer, he is also understood to have swerved a summit with his nemesis Tony Blair...
- uk.launch.yahoo.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Shakespeare wrote that brevity is the soul of wit. Perhaps Thom Yorke should have taken heed of those words in 2006. Yorke's first solo disc, The Eraser, was released in July; while there was much fanfare, the disc fell flat on with some of listeners (most of whom seemed to unfairly expect the musical 'rapture' to come from the nine-song collection). References were, however, made to The Eraser being the equivalent of 'Kid B' due to its skeletal electronic structure and poignant, pointed lyrics...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Thom Yorke has made it publicly known that he doesn't want The Eraser to be considered a "solo record." That works just fine for me, because at this point it seems impossible to separate the man from his work with Radiohead. Usually solo records are released when groups are already broken up or during inactive periods...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
I'd hoped that either I would learn to like this Thommy Boy excursus or the disaffected young professionals who hang on his every megrim would call an anxiety attack what it is. No such luck. Few believe Yorke's solo daybyew has the weight of a Radiohead album, that increasingly rare and invariably overrated thing. But such is the lure of his hypersensitivity that his admirers forgive and even applaud the extreme attenuation of this tastefully decorated click-and-loop...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
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