New Radiohead Album

[killer_roach]

This album confirms my idea that Radiohead (at least post-The Bends Radiohead) doesn't write songs, but jams. It's both a good and bad thing.

I wholly disagree. "Jams" insinuates a free-flowing, improvisational style to the composition... this is very deliberately structured, but in a very "out there" sort of way. I may need to listen to it a couple more times to get some more nuances out of it, but it appears there is a sort of chiasmic symmetry going on in the album being built around the earlier portions of Lotus Flower.

[TheRollingBones]

Just DLing it now. I kinda enjoy the one song I've heard from it (Lotus Flower), but it seems kinda boring. They're going for a more avant-garde artsy route, but I think they were best in their earlier stuff, straight up alt-rock. We'll see, we'll see.

[afterstasis]

It's a good album, but in the wake of the release I'm reminded that it's genuinely depressing how much attention this band gets at this point.

[swet07]

It's a good album, but in the wake of the release I'm reminded that it's genuinely depressing how much attention this band gets at this point.

+1

/mu/ was absolutely ridiculous.

[FlyGuyLXI]

I'm going to consider giving this album a shot. I didn't find a Radiohead album I liked, but after sampling a couple of tracks, The King of Limbs seems to have something for me.

[killer_roach]

I'm going to consider giving this album a shot. I didn't find a Radiohead album I liked, but after sampling a couple of tracks, The King of Limbs seems to have something for me.

Well, anyone expecting a redux of OK Computer or The Bends would be sadly disappointed, but I think people have pretty well understood that by now.

Then again, for those looking for complex, well-produced, electronic-tinged soundscapes with a flair for long-form composition, The King Of Limbs delivers on that excellently.

It's definitely one that's meant to be heard as a full album, though... some of the elements reappear in later tracks, there's some sense of symmetry, and even the very-clunky-on-its-own "Feral" serves as a focal point of much of the musical direction of the album.

[I_Use_Shamwows]

7.9/10
Meh

[FlyGuyLXI]

I just listened to it through a Youtube stream, (6.5/10)

I does carry a hypnotic, sometimes twisted feel, but by the second half it started drawing blanks.

[hiimSMAP]

I can see why many Radiohead purists may be turned off, but it's a good album. Not amazing, but good.

[thatmarkguy]

People who bought The King of Limbs, check your email.

Two new tracks ("Supercollider" and "The Butcher") are available for free download as a thank you to purchasers of TKOL.