Radiohead's video for House of Cards is the radio edit, which is roughly a minute shorter than the album version from In Rainbows. It doesn't make too much of a difference.
I love the atmosphere, it's minimal and it has space to work with, distance. This is night music. A single guitar groove starts things off and is soon joined by a deep rumbling, vibrating mass. Thom Yorke coos softly, like a dove. The music somehow reminds me of a modernized cross between The Beatles' Sun King and Hendrix's May This Be Love. It's in there, kind of vague and hazy. An aspect of Beethoven's 6th also haunts the vocal melody, part of the final movement. Jonny Greenwood adds the dreamy synth backdrops, he has the sensibilities of a film composer.
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