Since he doesn't want us calling it a solo album, it's OK that it leaked all over the Internet, right? When cuts from Thom Yorke's The Eraser started making the rounds a few weeks back, we saw that the other part of his pre-release self-assessment—"more beats, more electronics"—was distressingly right on. Generally, cuts seem to feature his gorgeous tenor gliding on glitchy blip-bloop Kid A fuzz … nice to sleep to, but otherwise inert. The uneasy "Harrowdown Hill," however, has a pulse and wears it like a badge. A slapped bass loop plays alone, then over a quick rock tumbler groove. In walks Yorke with minor key synth strings and a fantastic vocal energy. He murmurs trademark paranoid musings like "You will be dispensed with when you become inconvenient," then switches up with a swift ascendant melody intoning "We think the same things at the same time." It's duly cryptic, and the going interpretation is that it describes the death of Dr. David Kelly, the U.N. weapons inspector who took his own life (or was murdered, depending on who you believe) after falling into a media hubbub about WMDs in Iraq. But that backstory isn't entirely necessary to appreciate the push-pull emotional conflict laid out in the lyrics. It's a muted room—I'm picturing lights low, Yorke's face staring out a window, neon and streetlamp bouncing off it—but when the other cuts we're hearing are completely in the dark, "Harrowdown Hill" feels like somebody threw open the door and flicked on the light switch.