Christina's pick: "The National Anthem" by Radiohead

It feels disingenuous to have just one song from Kid A, since that album is really meant to be one formal, tortured and amazing emotional odyssey. Alas..

I've loved Radiohead forever. (Remember when we saw them years before we even knew each other, haha?)

This one, in title and sound, fits today's political climate really well. Current nationalist // fascist movements are swelling up in countries around us and including our own, and it's all happening so quickly that it's hard to make out any single moving piece of it. This song is like that, it's hard to separate one instrument from another, just a cacophony of trumpets, guitars, battling one another, and then a final discordant blare at the end. If I had to pick a song to serve as a warning sign to France, the UK, and the US two years ago about the things to come, I'd choose this one.