I completely agree, quarantine would've been completely unmanageable if it weren't for the music. Quarantine is when I first (and haven't stopped) got into Radiohead.

I know how you feel when a musician makes an album that reflects literally everything you're feeling. When I first listened to Kid A, I couldn't believe such a record existed. Tracks like Idioteque were, in my mind, a portrayal of what Fox News has been doing during COVID (gaslighting the population; "we're not scaremongering/this is really happening"). Consider Kid A was released 20 years before the pandemic. Crazy that a band can predict the future.

Thanks for your piece, Caroline. You rose the bar with personalized album reviews. Six-out-of-five stars :-)