"[Radiohead's] Kid A is the return-with-a-vengeance of a phenomenon that had seemingly petered out: post-rock. This highly contested genre dates back to 1993-94, when various smart operators began to notice the glaring and ever-widening gap in sonic vividness between guitar-based music and "sampladelia" (the whole area of digital music that encompasses dance, atmospheric electronics, and hip hop). The result was a loosely connected network of artists engaged in closing that innovation gap [...] What all these phases had in common was their partial or total abandonment of live performance as the model for recording: the willingness for music to be unrealistic, anti- naturalistic, a studio-spun figment."
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Simon Reynolds in "Revolution in the Head", published in Uncut, 2000
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