Minnesota Farm Bureau president Dan Glessing loads soybeans into his planter on Thursday, May 8, 2025 near Waverly, Minn. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)
A strong middle section begins with “Back in the Game.” The opening lyrics evoke the project’s genesis: “Have you missed me? How’ve you been? Back to 2020 again.” As in so much of Yorke’s work, the track blends emotional despair with an infectious musicality.It is anchored by the album’s two catchiest tracks. “Gangsters” evokes 1980s video games with its use of a Mattel
rhythm machine. The wonderfully titled “This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice” follows, with a propulsive electronic pop energy that falls somewhere betweenThe final third houses the oddball tracks. The overlapping voices in “Tall Tales” evoke a bardo of unsettled spirits. “Happy Days” features a bouncy carnival beat.The late songs gradually add analog instruments to the mix, and by the finale, “Wandering Genie,” the initial musical premise seems almost inverted: In the beginning, Yorke’s voice was the only organic sound; by the end, it’s all recognizable instruments and his voice has been digitized beyond recognition. Atop analog flute, bassoon and pipe organ, a mechanical Yorke brings the journey to its coda, repeating the single lyric, “I am falling.” And in 2020, who wasn’t?
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Some legal experts have argued that such a restriction on assembly rights violates Hungary’s constitution. In order to bring the Pride ban in line with constitutional protections, the amendment declares that children’s rights to moral, physical and spiritual development supersede any other fundamental right other than the right to life — including that to peacefully assemble.The amendment also declares that “a person’s sex at birth is a biological characteristic and can be either male or female” — an expansion of an earlier amendment that prohibits same-sex adoption by stating that a mother is a woman and a father is a man.