Songs that feel like Black Mirror (2011)
A glossy, unsettling dread where shiny technology exposes human vanity, cruelty and loneliness, with dark humour and the occasional aching tenderness.
- Paranoid Android by Radiohead: Fractured, sardonic dread about a world of consumption and alienation.
- Karma Police by Radiohead: Surveillance and judgement turned into a deadpan, creeping hymn.
- Everything In Its Right Place by Radiohead: Glitchy, cold synth unease that sounds like a mind in a malfunctioning system.
- Hyper-ballad by Björk: Beautiful, electronic ache about intimacy mediated by something unnatural.
- Teardrop by Massive Attack: Hypnotic trip-hop pulse with tender, haunted emotion.
- Hurt by Nine Inch Nails: Raw regret and numbness inside a cold digital shell.
- Hide And Seek by Imogen Heap: Vocoded voice stripped of humanity, echoing loss in the machine age.
- Fitter Happier by Radiohead: A robotic voice reciting a hollow, satirical checklist of modern life.