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EARTH
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Comparing Ed O’Brien’s solo debut to his day job is unfair, but the Radiohead guitarist’s done little to dissuade this. Earth fails to reveal new aspects to his talent, instead sometimes feeling like an undercooked record by the mothership band. Shangri-La’s falsettos lack Thom Yorke’s vocal charms, its melody undeveloped, as is Banksters’, while Brasil’s coda simply meanders. Sail On, though, recalls Slowdive’s ambient Souvlaki and Olympik’s borrows lines from World Of Twist’s The Storm to underline its baggy nature.