Recorded during the same session as Kid A, Amnesiac serves as a continuation and evolution of their sound. While Kid A was violently introverted, Amnesiac is agitated and extroverted. Though the music itself is heavily filtered and distant, the album still holds an emotionally stirring sound. By the addition of orchestra, jazz instrumentals, and pianos, Radiohead softens the harsh electronic apathy.

The dreary yet enticing dirge, "Pyramid Song" talks of his conception of an Egyptian afterlife experience. It's a beautiful and softly rolling song about the spiritual releasement from the mundane through death. The lyrics through most of the album are hard to follow and badly enunciated. The tone of his voice is the only thing you really have to go on to figure out the idea he's trying to express, a wonderful abstract usage of vocals. One of the best songs on the Amnesiac, is "Life In a Glasshouse." The clarinets, trumpets, and piano compliments his mournful wail and adds grandness to the sound.

Despite the arguments that Amnesiac is just B-sides to Kid A, I think this album has a distinct difference to Kid A. Less rock driven and more spiritual, it almost shows another side to Radiohead. All their work has had a touch of innovative genius to it, and this is just another step up. The rolling beat, the layers of electronic effects, Yorke's indecipherable but compunctive wail, and their drive to be different make Amnesiac anything but dull and everything but unoriginal.