L’héritage d’OK Computer : Influence de l’esthétique de Radiohead dans les productions de Leprous

• Main Author: Guillaume Deveney
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines 2019-11-01
• Series: Revue LISA
• Subjects: art music; contemporary amplified music; metal; pop music; transhumanism
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/lisa/10872

The release of OK computer in 1997 has had a huge impact on the production of rock music in the years 2000. At once a critique of Western consumer society and a foray into sound experimentation with radical musical choices, Radiohead’s album showed how important aesthetics and rhetoric could be in contemporary amplified music. Radiohead’s influence went far beyond the stylistic frontiers of classical rock music. We propose to examine this statement with a focus on progressive metal band Leprous, whose main composer, Einar Solberg, has always acknowledged the Oxford quintet’s influence – especially with OK Computer – on his own creations. We will pay special attention to the echoes of Radiohead’s aesthetics in albums such as The Congregation and Malina , be it from a musical, literary or visual art perspective.