Name: Weatherhouse [Digipak]
Brand: Bella Union
SKU: 55617238
Price: 17.91 USD
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Performer Notes

Personnel: Phil Selway (vocals, guitar, drums, drum machine, percussion); Adem Ilhan (vocals, guitar, marimba, drum machine, programming); Quinta (vocals, violin, viola, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, clavichord, Mellotron, marimba, percussion, musical saw).
Audio Mixer: David Wrench.
Recording information: Radiohead Quarters, Oxford (01/2013-01/2014); The Strongroom, London (01/2013-01/2014).
Listening to Weatherhouse, the second solo album from Radiohead drummer Philip Selway, and it's hard not to imagine that it exists in an alternate universe, one bereft of the electronica that rewired the English band's circuitry in the late '90s. Synthesizers are by no means absent on Weatherhouse -- an electronic pulse is among the first sounds heard on the album -- but they are not prominent. They, like so much else on this handsome record, function as a colorful thread in an intricately woven tapestry. Where there's often a steely glint in the master plan of Thom Yorke (the near simultaneous release of Tomorrow's Modern Boxes makes comparisons hard to avoid), Selway prefers a small-scale intimacy. His voice -- often murmuring, never soaring -- has an inherent conversational warmth that sometimes distracts from the sly complexities of his compositions. Then again, the charm of Weatherhouse is that it's unassuming: he's tapping into the gentle ebb and flow of classic English art rock but he's sensible enough to never succumb to the ostentatious display of brains that sometimes plagues classic prog. This is an immaculately crafted, impossibly tasteful miniature, one that will satisfy any listener longing for a Radiohead stripped of future shock. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Coming Up for Air' follows electronic throb into darkly rippling guitar poetry, and 'Waiting for a Sign' is a lovely slow-build glitch symphony."

Album: Weatherhouse [Digipak]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Coming Up for Air
2)	Around Again
3)	Let It Go
4)	Miles Away
5)	Ghosts
6)	It Will End in Tears
7)	Don't Go Now
8)	Drawn to the Light
9)	Waiting for a Sign
10)	Turning It Inside Out

Album: Weatherhouse [Digipak]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Coming Up for Air
2)	Around Again
3)	Let It Go
4)	Miles Away
5)	Ghosts
6)	It Will End in Tears
7)	Don't Go Now
8)	Drawn to the Light
9)	Waiting for a Sign
10)	Turning It Inside Out