OK Computer

Nigel Godrich was only 27 when he mixed this. He spent months wrestling with the band’s obsession with keeping the takes human despite the creeping influence of electronic textures. You’ve got a mountain of 2020s electronic and hardstyle in that collection. You should know that the tension between Jonny Greenwood’s angular guitar work and Godrich’s cut-up, jittery rhythmic edits here is the direct ancestor to half the sample-heavy records you’ve bought in the last few years. This record is basically the bridge between late-nineties organic production and the polished, hyper-processed sound dominating modern pop and electronic music. Most people talk about the "dystopian" lyrics, but the real story is the sub-bass management. It’s tight. It’s claustrophobic. It’s exactly why those records you own from the last five years have such clean, brutal low-ends.

source: the clerk