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Millions of Gen-Xers and Millennials watched the fallout from Bush vs. Gore unfold in the news while Kid A droned on endlessly through their headphones. It was an eerily ideal soundtrack for what seemed like a darker, more foreboding time after the peace and prosperity of the β90sβa gloomily disorienting fanfare for a new era. Though we had no way of knowing exactly how dark.
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Steven Hyden (This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" and the Beginning of the 21st Century)