Radiohead - The King of Limbs

http://www.thekingoflimbs.com/

Download out on the 19th.

OMG

YAY 2011!!!

i love these dudes

i love these dudes

― markers, Monday, 14 February 2011 09:35 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

whoa rad!

So the mp3s (320k) are priced at £6 in the UK. I guess they've used their research from the In Rainbows experiment to find the optimum price.

love the blog post announcing this, btw: http://radiohead.com/deadairspace/

PITCHFORK, DON'T DISAPPOINT US NOW -- AWESOME, HYPERBOLIC AMY PHILLIPS NEWS STORY PLZ

It's 2011, why don't you people listen to something a little less boring?

KBP, EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *claps claps claps, claps claps snaps*

more like "The King of Limp (Cocks)" btw

clever

clever dick, even

can't tell if markers is being ironic or

Faust Arp

Excited! But "newspaper album" sounds so so lame...

Thought it was going to come free with the Daily Mail when I read that.

Lol at p4k not mentioning this yet. Someone's gonna get fired for that

weren't they only going to put out EPs and individual tracks for a while instead of albums? still, psyched either way. if it's half as good as In Rainbows i'll be impressed. artwork looks dreadful but i'm used to that with Radiohaed by now.

Radiohead really aren't very good at artwork.

oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together

Yes, that should do the job

Don't put Oxo on your records in you wanna keep them guys

Radiohead really aren't very good at artwork.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TVkLDgmbhKI/AAAAAAAAAc4/3Icm8nzLAHI/s640/radioheads.jpg

weren't they only going to put out EPs and individual tracks for a while instead of albums? still, psyched either way. if it's half as good as In Rainbows i'll be impressed. artwork looks dreadful but i'm used to that with Radiohaed by now.

― piscesx, Monday, February 14, 2011 10:41 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think they've been saying this since 1997

totally stealing this one

I think the artwork's better than usual, actually!

Mmmm I don't really like the cover, if it weren't Radiohead behind this I'd completely ignore the album but maybe it will make more sense when paired with the rest of the artwork (Execution of Kid A and Hail to the Thief's artwork was really well done imho) but as ever I'm genuinely excited about this.
Any word on tracklist?

Just been searching for one, nothing turned up.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5225/backgroundef.jpg

Like this a lot more than the actual cover. And there's no word on the tracklisting yet.

how can people not like that awesome cover with the ghost dudes on it, what is wrong with you

the other one looks like the default Indie Band With Money template in Aldus Pagemaker

cool

I like everything about the actual cover except for the orange and green and the dated grungy font. The coloring just makes it look like Aquaman made it or something.

Radiohead really aren't very good at artwork.

I like the covers to this, Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief. Everything else is kind of nondescript.

I tried to order this and the last step ended up in SQL hell and I have a short attention span so now I will probably never hear it. good luck king of limbs

radiohead's announcement cynically timed to steal the arcade fire's thunder.

I had to do it twice. It worked the second time. x-post

They suck for not releasing the CD on the same date. I will never pay for downloads when I intend to buy the CD anyway. Physical CDs >>>>>>>>>>>>> downloads.

Uh, if you buy the cd, you get the download on Saturday and the cd when it's ready.

or wait, can you get the cd w/o buying the extravagant vinyl package? maybe not.

That's more offensive to me than buying mp3s.

Preorder? May go for it then. Or just enjoy the album on Spotify until the CD is ready.

I still don't understand why killing the CD seems so important for some people while currently there is no format that can realistically compete with CDs in terms of sound quality. Yes, lossless exists, but nobody buys lossless.

Well, looks like there's no separate cd option yet, but there's one included with the vinyl sale. They do sell it in .wav format, though, so you can burn your own cd.

I doubt if this'll ever be on Spotify, In Rainbows isn't.

xp Yes they do

I had to do it twice. It worked the second time. x-post

yeah I have a rule with shit like this, if your frontend is too clunky to let my order go through the first time then I just buy an old Bathory album from Hells Headbangers instead

in some ways, this is an even more interesting experiment with digital-sales than in rainbows, since now -- with the data the band gathered the last time -- they can see if the model for hitting an optimal price-point works.

i guess the response is that radiohead, unlike a lot of other bands, has a built-in, passionate fanbase that will go out of their way to buy the product.

coincidentally enough, this album is completely comprised of bathory covers!

Haha how weird. Yesterday right before I went to sleep I was listening to a couple of tracks from In Rainbows and wondering when something new would be released.

wow. no tracklisting. clear vinyl. i'm psyched!

x-post But two years later, I bet the data has shifted, no? What someone may have been willing to pay for an album with a novel release scheme a couple of years ago may (and probably is) different from what they're willing to pay today, esp. with so many Amazon MP3 fire sales and whatnot. I mean, the Grammy-winning "Suburbs" is $5 on Amazon.

In other words, curious how this works out.

Haha how weird. Yesterday right before I went to sleep I was listening to a couple of tracks from In Rainbows and wondering when something new would be released.

I wasn't wondering when something new would be released, but I listened to The Bends for the first time in ages last night when going to sleep. Woke up to find out there's a new album imminent.

Ned and I can make things happen, people!

oh man you guys were listening to the wrong albums, now this is gonna suck

Will Ned and Johnny Fever please listen to the Avalanches tonight before going to sleep.

I'm really excited for this album I still listen to In Rainbows a lot.

I am not nearly as excited for this as I would have been before In Rainbows came out.

And so the laughable bullshit begins...

coincidentally enough, this album is completely comprised of bathory covers!

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 14 February 2011 13:39 (39 minutes ago) Bookmark

Under the Sign of the Thom Yorke

I'm excited it's a return to form after the disappointing In Rainbows!

:P

Exciting news for an otherwise blah Monday, but I'm wishing there was some sort of in-between option that is more than just the downloads and less than super-duper deluxe expensive boxset.

Well, if they are going to do it this way, I miss an option a la "In Rainbows" to pay zilch for the downloads and then full prize for the CD when it appears. I did it then, and I also know many others did.

i suspect you'll be able to buy a normal CD of it in the store eventually

Can't say that I'm all that excited about this. $48 seems too steep for me. I'll wait for the 12" when it's only $15.

The regular CD will be in stores on March 28th.

i suspect you'll be able to buy a normal CD of it in the store eventually

Yeah, but that also means that I'd have to wait until the end of March to hear it when the album has already been discussed to death and no one cares anymore. Good job Radiohead on forcing the illegal downloads!

£6 is not exactly an enormous amount to pay if you want to hear in that much!

Psyched for this, although I'm not sure I'm actually going to be able to listen to this on the 19th. Feels weird for an album to have a RELEASE DATE that means something in 2011 - I miss release date excitement far more than the physical CD in this day and age.

See, I would totally be jumping on a, like, $15 for digital download now and get the physical CD when its rleased. I just happen to fall into that gap where I want a physical product, but I don't want to shell out $48 for it.

Agree there should be a middle option, with just a compact disc preorder. I don't even have a turntable anymore, and if I did, that still seems a pretty steep price to pay for some fancy packaging and an album I'm not even sure yet whether or not I'll like.

In Rainbows = Pay what you want
King of Limbs = sorry, we gotta get paid

i'd imagine if they could have manufactured the CD/LP themselves and sold it and avoided labels completely, they would have. to think they hadnt thought it through and done the sums is probably naive - i would imagine the amounts they lose in illegal downloads in the month before its in the shops is not comparable to taking on the distro themselves.

My barrier isn't the price, it's the extra crap I have no space for in my house.

can't believe you're unwilling to make room for 625 tiny pieces of artwork

In Rainbows = Pay what you want
King of Limbs = sorry, we gotta get paid

― van smack, Monday, February 14, 2011

eh, this is more than a little unfair as a criticism, unless you subscribe to the "music years to be free (of charge)" school of thought.

radiohead have families to feed, you know.

can't believe you're unwilling to make room for 625 tiny pieces of artwork

That has about the same level of appeal as "also included: a really old slice of ham" for me

^ yes, this

i always thought the brilliant bit of the In Rainbows release was not the pay what you want model but the fact that they had complete control of its dissemination, i.e. no leaks, no promos, no record stores opening it early, etc. it's much easier to sell people a record they don't have yet.

The regular CD will be in stores on March 28th.

source?

I admit I am looking forward to the anguished "WHERE ARE THOSE LAST TWO PIECES OF TINY ARTWORK" blog posts/tweets

i agree w/ lj and johnny that there should be a "middle option" between the download and deluxe "newspaper album" (lol) box set. but i get why they would delay the standard cd edition. big radiohead fans who want a physical product asap will be more likely to order the box without a lower-priced physical option to trade down to. smart business move imo

also, this drawing from the radiohead blog should be the album cover imo

http://cdn.sandbag.uk.com/RH/thankyou2.jpg

They'll make enough money off selling t-shirts with that album cover on them. It seems designed to have the maximum possible appeal to teenage goths.

And so the laughable bullshit begins...

― Under Me Smang Tang (Doran), Monday, February 14, 2011 9:21 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"What's not yet clear is why it's called a "Newspaper Album". But newspapers – it's no secret – are suffering the same sort of woes as the music industry. Is there some hidden clue here for how the print business will find salvation, too?"

i have nothing to say about this except to register my respect to Melissa W for starting this thread after already starting the 'in rainbows' thread

That has about the same level of appeal as "also included: a really old slice of ham" for me

was so excited for you to get the pic they commissioned from me :(

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1zGLaFOzr-E/TQp1U7atOjI/AAAAAAAAESU/FQsl8F_-TJQ/s1600/DSCN9152.JPG

xpost -- Hahah I was thinking that too. A sign of true reliability!

btw, yes, former Midwesterners, that's ham with cream cheese on it. I'm going to boil it in 2 gallons of cream of mushroom soup and then serve it on a bed of saltines.

Those scallions look good.

[q] The regular CD will be in stores on March 28th.

source?[/q]

The guy who runs the atease news site. Always reliable when it comes to this sort of thing.

Ugh, ignore code fuck-up.

Can we conclude now that ultimately Radiohead's "groundbreaking" In Rainbows sale approach, ie. let the customer decide, was just a one off and has failed? It was hailed as The Future of Music Buying when IR came out, but already they are going back to a more traditional way of selling their music. I don't know any figures on how IR did, what the average was that a buyer paid for it etc. But surely the band themselves must be disappointed. If not them, then at least the ever horny and looking for saviours mainstream music press will be. But then they are, again, hailed as the saviours of the music biz now, judging by that Grauniad article linked up here.

iirc In Rainbows 'sold' pretty well but everyone agreed that was only possible due to the high profile/large fanbase of the band

i have nothing to say about this except to register my respect to Melissa W for starting this thread after already starting the 'in rainbows' thread

― J0rdan S., Monday, February 14, 2011 9:10 AM

Not sure if this is respect or "respect"?

That doesn't even work as sarcasm Jordan.

J0rdan has been trying to make up for Whiney being gone.

I'm pretty sure that the In Rainbows thing did quite well for the band, but that they considered it a card that could only be played once.

i think it all depends on how much they did take in.

guys i wasn't being sarcastic

I doubt they're that arsed how much money they make from this.

i think the idea is, radiohead "discovered" with In Rainbows how much ppl are willing to pay for a Radiohead digital download. so now they are most likely charging prices along the lines of what ppl were willing to pay for the last one... right?

to be far to radiohead, they were very keen to emphasise that pay-as-you-want was not "the future of music buying" as the press labelled it, but rather a reaction to the situation they found themselves in - i.e. unable to decide on a pricing model. looks like thats not the case this time.

Here's a fake cover for you, ilxor. You can tag your mp3s with this:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TVlI_0noOlI/AAAAAAAAAdM/dRJ0d8It_3U/s800/radioheadfaux.jpg

hahahaha <3

radiohead have families to feed, you know.

Sure, I paid them last time (for a physical CD) and I'll gladly pay them this time around too. But it pisses me off that once more it'll take months for the physical CD to eventually appear in the shops.

i think the fact that they're totally in control of the distribution (at least to start out with) is a lot more important to them than the price point

i guess the leaky nature of standard label/distro channels precludes a simultaneous release with the mailorder stuff.

Well it's not actually the ghosts and trees which I dislike on the album cover... it's more the choice of colors they picked. Some sort of neon winter reggae... which probably means all songs will sound like variations on 'house of cards'.

But it pisses me off that once more it'll take months for the physical CD to eventually appear in the shops.

i hear you but, absent the early digital-release, they could have just released the physical product in late march.

wonder if Pitchfork is seriously having an office party right now

What looks reggae about the cover?

I think the worst part is the type on top of the cover. It does look very AP magazine emo/screamo/hardcore/postgoth

It's apparently a font that was made from handcut blocks of wood that were then scanned. And yet it still doesn't look like anything other than some shitty grungy font from the year 2000.

Well, it's a basic non-grungy font. It's just that it's kind of translucent and you can see the design beneath it.

Right. Its paired with such a gothy t-shirt ready image as Matt said.

Although I'm not as hardline about it as Geir, I'm one of those people stuck on the physical format and I'm having a really hard time letting go of that. I know there are so many reasons to get over myself - a) I don't have unlimited physical space for my ever growing collection, b) from an environmental standpoint, its kind of wasteful and indulgent, and c) the "cloud" is obviously the way of the future; but I'm finding myself frustrated when I get "punished" for waiting months and months for a physical item.

what typeface are we talking about here?

xpost

jon and Geir are experiencing what may be the platonic ideal of First World Problems

Yeah, I guess I'm just a big old douchey dinosaur for feeling like I do.

Just about the download, it looks like you need to be able to unzip the files once you get them. Cos I don't generally download stuff (other than from iTunes, Amazon and eMusic), I never got round to buying an application to extract files. The King of Limbs site links the user to Winzip, so if I were to follow their advice, then this whole thing is going to cost me £32. Thanks guys!

what typeface are we talking about here?

http://cdn.sandbag.uk.com/RV/c/TKOLPackshot.jpg

oh!

winzip is free to all intents and purposes. 7zip is really and totally free: http://www.7-zip.org/

if you preorder the 'newspaper' edition you'd have to wait a month longer than the people picking up the regular CD/LP. the leak is on saturday, the physical release a month later, the deluxe release a month later than that.

I mean, I want a physical CD without 625 choking hazards as well, which is why I am either going to wait for the physical release or buy the mp3s and pick up the album later if I like it enough

(which reminds me, I still need to pick up physical copies of Heligoland and Heartland)

xp: most modern operating systems open .zip files natively now; they are treated just like regular folders

Thanks ledge. Why aren't the Radiohead sending people there instead? xxp

xxxp: what OS are you on? windows has native support for unzipping zip files, at least since XP if not older versions

and winzip is 'shareware' or whatever, it asks you to buy it but it never actually disables any features after the 30 days are up iirc

I got xp, so it may or may not work I guess. Hasn't worked in the past, but I'll figure it out somehow...

well 7-zip should work regardless, so you're all set

and winzip is 'shareware' or whatever, it asks you to buy it but it never actually disables any features after the 30 days are up iirc

FYI as of version 10 they changed this so that after 30 days you had to buy it; I don't know if they changed it back with subsequent versions

does the program actually have features that are worth $ in any sense?

or are they just relying on people who get confused w/ zip files

winRAR is free and can open .rar and .zip iirc

No, not in a world where 7zip exists (xp)

not really, it was the first decent zip/unzip program for windows and has been around for ages and ages, so it's used purely on name recognition now that there are good free alternatives

Yeah, winRAR is the champ for all time.

btw can I just say lol @ all of us for the turn this conversation has taken

This is the stuff that Thom Yorke doesn't want you to know.

this is a good time to ask the question "what is the difference between zip files and rar files?"

Yeah, winRAR is the champ for all time.

QFT; it really doesn't get better than WinRAR.

this is a good time to ask the question "what is the difference between zip files and rar files?"

it's a different encoding algorithm; IIRC RAR files are supposed to be smaller on average

pretty sure rar compression creates smaller archive files?

xp

so why would anyone ever use a zip file?

this is a good time to ask the question "what is the difference between zip files and rar files?"

Rar compresses more than zip, I think the compression algorithm is just more complex or something

Hey guys, I wonder what this album will SOUND like?!

I think zip files are still used because WinZip doesn't do rars or something, I guess it's kind of the same reason why mp3 is still used even if other formats are technically 'better'

because rar sometimes confuses people and zip is better known/maybe more universal?

so why would anyone ever use a zip file?

― iatee, Monday, February 14, 2011 11:22 AM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

zip is open format, rar is proprietory.

Thought that 'waiting' artwork is more Meat Puppets circa 1985

I have learned so much this morning, thank you

man i wonder how many mbs the compressed archive of this album is going to be!

c'mon we can get five days more compression software discussion out of this before the album arrives.

radiohead's decision to make this a zip file now infuriates me btw

Well it's also easier to figure out what to do with a file ending in ".zip" ("hmm, maybe I need to... unzip it?") than what to do with a file ending in ".rar" ("I spent 10 minutes roaring into the microphone and I still can't get to my mp3s ;_;")

Please note that compression software data for the entire discography is also included. This was the only data made available with the application, and in order to accurately estimate and verify hearing results, individual album compression data will need to be obtained from the band.

I don't even think Factory released a file compression program under a cat number.

Jordan - I would guess about 82 mbs compressed. I would guess they would use 320 kbps MP3s after the shitstorm that occured after In Rainbows was released as a 160 kbps MP3 (really a dumb decision, but whatever), I still think they probably have no idea what VBR is so I doubt they'd use it. I think 320 is like 2 mb = 1 minute, and my guess is this album will be 52 minutes long, so 104 mb compressed which should be like 82, but my math might be totally off.

104 mb compressed which should be like 82

That would be SERIOUSLY compressed. I'd guess that 104mb worth of data compressed by standard rar settings would result in something around 96-98mb.

compression of an already compressed mp3 will be more like 1%.

Yeah I guess you're probably right...so my guess would be 98 then. I don't really pay attention to compressed file sizes anymore since we live in a world of terabyte hard drives but it doesn't surprise me that I got it totally wrong.

i like to sidechain compress my files to the kick drum

zip feels like a nut, rar doesn't

I guess I'm always hoping that they won't sound grim
But it's my destiny to buy The King of Limbs

So, about the music...

I'm excited to see a tracklist. There have been a couple of new songs that Thom played over the last year (titles escape me right now) that didn't impress me at the time, but then again, I wasn't that impressed by "house of cards" when it was first played, and that ended up being one of my favorite songs on In Rainbows.

There were a few songs on Jonny's Norweigian Wood soundtrack that I thought could have been transformed into really cool rh songs.

Some of the tracks off that are basically the soundcheck arrangement of The Present Tense.

So... right now there's not really much material for us to get excited about right? Just a release date and some artwork. Hope to see at least some tracklist before the record comes out... more fun to speculate on actual songs... guessing which song got resurrected from the vault this time... (lift, big boots, true love waits...)... is 'these are my twisted words' included somewhere in there and is it a clue on the sort of sound we should expect?

Wonder will 'Twisted Words' be on it? Or hey maybe 'Lift' at last lol. this site seems to think it might know what's going on. dunno mind:
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/tkol.html

say this every time: hope they've got some 10-minute songs on that thing

I liked the concise but still unusual song structures of In Rainbows myself.

In Rainbows doesn't feel very memorable, surprising or important for me - if I only heard 15 Step, Reckoner and Jigsaw Falling Into Place again from it I'd be happy

Hail To The Thief otoh is immense and everything I ask of Radiohead and more - propah fucken widescreen that record

Ah well, you and me differ then. To some extent I actually like it so much because it doesn't sound like it's trying so hard to be 'important' as previous releases. Every song feels organic and unaffected.

xpost

I love about half the tracks on HTTT, could definitely loose a couple though.

I disliked In Rainbows because I didn't think the songs worked well together. I enjoy those songs much more when I encounter them in isolation on Genius playlists than I do when I try to listen to the album; as a group, they don't really support or flow into each other very well, pretty much unlike every other Radiohed album aside from Pablo Honey.

can't tell if markers is being ironic or

― The image post from the hilarious "markers" internet persona (history mayne)

with the being excited for the record? not at all. i genuinely like radiohead

Again, I disagree. Works very well as piece IMO

xpost

Wonder will 'Twisted Words' be on it? Or hey maybe 'Lift' at last lol. this site seems to think it might know what's going on. dunno mind:
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/tkol.html

― piscesx

It's a pretty good documentation of unreleased songs that they've been playing around recently. Unless 'burn the witch' ended up being renamed for something on In Rainbows it will most definitely appear this time around... remember I've seen that one mentioned frequently. Only song in there I recognize is 'follow me around' which I don't think has any chance of being released at this point but anything could happen.

Thing is, Radiohead are a band who don't do 'organic and unaffected' so well - they're at their best when there's a sense of engaged and intelligent contrivance - they never 'jam', they control every detail masterfully and present every narrative as a hotwired, energy-packed and pristine mechanism whose internal logic has been endlessly considered and whose consequent Importance is implicit in its twists and turns. Other bands do 'organic and instinctive' really well, but Radiohead trying to do that left me cold - it felt like a compromise, with them watering down their surprising and arch narratives but not really coming up with a compelling method in its stead.

And yeah, In Rainbows as an album loses that sense of control and logic which all of Radiohead's other albums are bursting to display. 'Look at me, I'm fucken SEQUENCED'

Yep, they work better in a calculated, controlled environment, I reckon they wouldn't make a decent jam band.

in rainbows is their best album btw

I also liked In Rainbows more when I play it in random order; it made me briefly think my first impression of the album was wrong. (I had a similar thing happen with Pulp's This Is Hardcore which I loathed until I shuffled it; hearing it that way broke my preconceived notions and let me enjoy it in its original sequence. With In Rainbows, trying to play it in retail order reinforced how annoying I found the album as released.)

in rainbows is their best album btw
co-sign

I think this record will sound like dubstep.

oh god

haha I would be 100% behind that

I'd agree with Rainbows being their best too if you hadn't gathered already. It's miles off from being jammy, thank god, and still very highly controlled. But toning down the overwroughtness a few notches really suits the band, for me. There aren't so many instantly show-stopping moments as previously, but there's still masses of drama on the album, it's just subtler, less immediate and ultimately more satisfying.

well, a dubbier sound MIGHT work tbh - they'd have to do something interesting with it but it could be OK. my #1 album of last year was a 90's dude kinda getting his dubstep on so...

Hail To The Thief otoh is immense and everything I ask of Radiohead and more - propah fucken widescreen that record

lj knows where it's at

My main problem with In Rainbows is that it lacks unarguable tunes tbh. Understated and subtle Radiohead resulted in A Punchup At A Wedding which is one of my favourite Radiohead songs, but that one's taut and nervous and unearthly and dramatic in a way that only a few of In Rainbows' tracks approach

I feel very strange going into this album, because I used to love Radiohead's music, and now I don't get much pleasure out of it.

I will never forget finding out about In Rainbows...anticipating it like hell, and there on that Wednesday morning, seeing the update on the school internet. Limbs I'm just going to look forward to hearing this weekend, and try to reconnect and cast my mind back to my fandom of this band.

I guess if they're going to go "subtle"* I'd rather they do so like "Go To Sleep" or "I Will" rather than... um I can't even match In Rainbows song titles to the songs, which one is the one in 6/8?

* this seems like a very odd word to use in conjunction with Radiohead

yeah A Punchup isn't really *subtle* as such, more 'incremental', brooding, and eventually spectacular

I listened to In Rainbows in the downstairs part of the library for the first time, bunking off a morning lesson as I was so excited. The chills lasted the entire day.

I would've ranked it as no2 behind Kid A across their discography.

Punchup is the worst song on any Radiohead album, it's just plodding.

I predict this record will sound nothing like dubstep, either dubstep proper or some kind of James Blake indiestep. It would feel like too obvious a move.

hmmm...i...agree with lj!

I hate Punchup too actually. My jam on HTTT was always Where I End And You Begin..

What? No! "Punchup" is fucking great!

At any rate nothing is worse than everything on Pablo Honey that isn't "Creep"

or "Blow Out" or "Stop Whispering"

(There are too many songs on HTTT that compete for favorite song from that album for me, which is another reason why it's my favorite Radiohead album.)

xp I don't know about proper predictions, but it just seems likely to me that they'll respond in their own way to 00s dubstep the way they did to 90s IDM.

Either way, I like how we've had barely any pointers or hints about its direction. Such a surprise when we hit play I guess..

god yeah, where to start? 2+2=5 is one of the best opening tracks qua opening tracks of the 00's and it keeps on being amazing from there onwards

xp: last time we got this level of surprise, I hated the album

i'm hoping for a heavily electronic album that's influenced by all the recent shit they've been listening to, but i really doubt that's what we're getting.

xp I dunno, I was geeking out on live tracks they played on the 2006 tour, so actually the only proper surprise for me with IR was hearing how they'd sound all recorded, mixed and sequenced.

The Citizen Insane thing upthread could give us some hints, if we're inclined that way..

this album will be funky house

Chillstep

omg

Radiohead doing a witch house album would be so my type of shit

this album is going to be snorecore

i was just thinking the other day that a lot of the james blake album just sounds like a thinner 'everything in its right place'

It's going to sound like Asian Dub Foundation.

God, that is a terrifying thought.

The cover looks kind of Black Metal, maybe that's where they're going.

It's gonna sound like latterday Anathema, don't kid yrselves

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wrKlFhH7lCo/Seoa9XocppI/AAAAAAAAANA/hE1TQQSCaxU/s320/tapes.jpg

there is no format that can realistically compete with CDs in terms of sound quality

Any MP3 over 192kbps is fine with me.

Named after this?

OMG it's going to be their Joshua Tree.

That is one evil looking tree.

loooool Moka

Named after this?

OMG it's going to be their Joshua Tree.

― James Mitchell

From wikipedia

The name of the new album relates to an oak tree in Wiltshire’s Savernake Forest, thought to be around 1,000 years old.[4] The forest lies around three miles away from Tottenham House, a listed country house where Radiohead recorded part of In Rainbows. The tree is a pollarded oak, referring to an ancient technique for harvesting timber for fencing and firewood. The phrase also appears in the 23rd chapter of the Qur'an.[2]

$15 for .wav files is such bs.

I can't find any reference to the 'King of Limbs' in the Qur'an because there isn't one. Whoever wrote that got confused. After searching for 'King of Limbs' via google, they probably arrived at a [1] wikipedia page about the Qur'an which mentions a commentator 'Ibn Kathir' who used the term to expand on a verse. He described the heart as being 'the king of limbs' while explaining his understanding of the Qur'anic term 'Al-Khushoo'.

The site of al-Khushoo is in the heart and heart is the king of the limbs, so if one intends to pray wholeheartedly the limbs will follow the heart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mu%E2%80%99minoon#Qualities_of_the_believers

So it's going to be their pastoral hauntological album then..

That or they're going back to their roots.

Album cover features surprise cameo by Slimer.

They may be branching out.

They should charge $30 for a DVD w the Protools session files.

$15 for .wav files is such bs.

Yeah that seems pretty expensive considering the mp3s are only $9; does it really cost $6 more in bandwidth to transfer? Come on man

uncompressed wavs are admittedly pretty giant

Wikipedia says the average price paid for In Rainbows was £4 (based on a survey of 3,000), and I was sure I saw somewhere else that the average was $5... Regardless, it seems inaccurate to assume they came up with those prices from In Rainbows data

just looking at the files for one song on my record here - the 320kpbs mp3 version is 10.8 mb, and the wav version is 47.9 mb

First band to release a tracklisting via Youtube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYslBdou_zM

oh lol @ track 3

it's on

They're finally releasing "Follow Me Around" in some form? Interesting...

This site says the avg. for those who paid was $6, but only 38% of people paid anything.

it's a song about twitter. the chorus contains the line "please rt, please rt"

That youtube account is not real.

aw

The Daily Mail is a real song though.

yay

Whether or not this is any good at all, or overpriced or not, the one definitely fantastic thing about it is that it's released on a Saturday.

Although UK music releases are now all on a Monday and have been for ages - SOME OF US CAN REMEMBER when new records were released on a Friday.

If I recall correctly (although I do so increasingly infrequently).

But there was, then, the added excitement of getting a new record just in time for the weekend.

And Monday is far too far from the weekend, and from the first opportunity for many people to get a decent chance to listen to new stuff.

There are 6 other days of the week - at least - that would be better than Monday for music being released.

Saturday is, undoubtedly, one of these other days that is not a Monday.

http://thekingoflimbs.jp/sites/en/

Supposedly it's 8 tracks long.

that increases the chances of EPICNESS :D

Be nice to hear Follow Me Around after years of crappy live versions and a cobbled together version from Meeting People is Easy.

a radiohead album full of 8-minute songs runs a very high risk of being my album of the year, and I'm not ashamed to say that

I was about to say...there could a few 5-minute plus-ers

Longer Radiohead songs could potentially fall into two categories: an extension of the song suite multi-part epic ala Paranoid Android, or a more Krautrock derived gradual build or trance.

Gah I'm fumbling around in the dark here..

man they are really fucking those of us that want the vinyl :/

http://thekingoflimbs.jp/sites/en/

Supposedly it's 8 tracks long.

― Davek (davek_00), Monday, February 14, 2011 3:22 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this only further increases my suspiscion that it is a song-by-song reinterpretation of Rush's Grace Under Pressure

dude grace is an underrated rush jawn, i'm thinking about this

8 tracks? Now I'm getting really amped up.

Looking forward to "Paranoid Android Part 2"

Omg "Follow Me Around" really?!?

I don't know where you guys are hearing about Follow Me Around..

Well it's more than likely going to be the same song right?

haha i luv radiohehead Wild Speculation & Rumor Day

the way it says 8 tracks FROM makes it sound like its a sampler. pretty sure they wouldnt do that though.

this only further increases my suspiscion that it is a song-by-song reinterpretation of Rush's Grace Under Pressure

I'm getting the mp3 version, but if this were true, I'd definitely shell out the $50 for the vinyl version. Hopefully Radiohead is at least reading this thread and getting some awesome ideas for their next LP.

FWIW, here's the digital fulfillment company Radiohead is working with: http://sandbag.uk.com/

Placed my order for the 320 version. I'm through with physical objects.

i froze up is a lovely song, i doubt it will be on it though. its pretty old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AngJQVIefjA

I want all the songs to sound like a cross between "In Limbo" & "I Might Be Wrong"

(with maybe some "National Anthem" & "Uptight" thrown in for good measure)

This "Uptight"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDbyOLzEyfk

Cause yeah, more Radiohead songs need to sound like that.

Pre-ordered. And I have to say, 36 euros including p&p seems like a really good deal. Esp. considering p&p would come to what, 10 euros at least for what seams a heavy box.

A 4 tracks/sides album would be sublime, but I'll sign for a mere 8!

oh man I cannot wait for this

Ditto

went to the record store recently and the guy was selling a seven inch with die cut boloney in a zip lock bag packaged with it. They hadn't sold in his online store fast enough so when I asked about what was in the bag he threw them all out.

I mean, it was several copies of the seven inch all with aging boloney.

Kinda surprised it's only eight tracks, as their records are generally quite uniform as being 10-12 3 to 5 min. tracks (with the exceptions of "Paranoid Android" and Hail to the Thief being 14 tracks). Makes m wonder if they've got more material on the way, esp. since they've been working on this stuff for ages. Pretty stoked that we have no idea whatsoever what to expect.

Maybe it'll be a Kid A/Amnesiac kind of deal.

Or a bonus disc as with In Rainbows. Anyway, we'll all find out soon enough.

Think they would have mentioned a bonus disc? I think they mentioned the In Rainbows one.

In Rainbows is still sitting in a pile downstairs. I bought it, but haven't yet taken off the shrinkwrap.

Just bought the jumbo newspaper edition, am annoyed that it doesn't come out until..

Due Ship Date for the Newspaper Album: 9th May 2011

I mean, I know I'll get the download this weekend, but 3 more fucking months???

No offense, but it pretty clearly stated that in the information before you had to click anything.

I think I might actually cave and buy the deluxe thingamabob.

Sorry, I meant that I knew it came out then, it just seems weird to have it so far ahead

They should charge $30 for a DVD w the Protools session files.

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau)

Dang, I'd buy that and I don't even like Radiohead.

I'll be surprised if it doesn't look like the broadsheet edition of McSweeny's. They're obviously the kind of guys who fuck w. Dave Eggers and read that publication.

really I just want to know if it is going to look like an actual newspaper so I know if I can go around saying they ripped off the Dead Kennedys on that one album

I don't know what you guys are on about, the cover art is fantastic and hopefully indicates what the album is like. Also hello even my mother has heard of zip files. Can't wait to hear this.

Whether or not this is any good at all, or overpriced or not, the one definitely fantastic thing about it is that it's released on a Saturday.

Although UK music releases are now all on a Monday and have been for ages - SOME OF US CAN REMEMBER when new records were released on a Friday.

If I recall correctly (although I do so increasingly infrequently).

But there was, then, the added excitement of getting a new record just in time for the weekend.

And Monday is far too far from the weekend, and from the first opportunity for many people to get a decent chance to listen to new stuff.

There are 6 other days of the week - at least - that would be better than Monday for music being released.

Saturday is, undoubtedly, one of these other days that is not a Monday.

― Neil Willett, Monday, February 14, 2011 8:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

awwwwww yeah, it's the weekend, time to throw on the new radiohead jam

Look Enrique, the Big Society means some of us have a tough old week of putting out each other's bins and having to buy up forests and stuff. Come Saturday we have no energy to be riding around in open-top cars drinking Moet. All we want to do is sit in our hospital beds and cry and cry and cry. So enough sarkiness from you.

a radiohead album full of 8-minute songs runs a very high risk of being my album of the year, and I'm not ashamed to say that

You do realise that "really long songs" isn't actually any kind of guarantee that they'll be good?

This newspaper edition is basically going to be Radiohead's Thick As A Brick right?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ef/DirkvdM_thick_as_a_brick.jpg/440px-DirkvdM_thick_as_a_brick.jpg

http://mulharmen.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/gnr-lies.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/3048097992_4bb16dfa1d.jpg?v=0

The design of all three of those is so well suited to the respective bands. Will frankly be disappointed if Radiohead don't recreate the whole of the Observer, complete with all the supplements.

I for one am looking forward to Colin Greenwood's cookery column. Maybe the drummer could write an inane opinion piece about the diplomatic minefield of only sending out wedding invites through Facebook.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/IMG_0073_edited-3.jpg

http://mykec.net/mykec/images/mly/roxette_look_sharp.jpg

Tom Waits' Heart Attack & Vine is another obvious one of these. No matter how much extra stuff they add, it's kind of a played out idea already.

http://991.com/newGallery/Gail-Ann-Dorsey-The-Corporate-Wor-390022.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JohnLennon-albums-sometimeinnewyorkcity.jpg

http://www.torkhum.com/topten/rap_juicyjthumb.jpg

http://img.noiset.com/images/album/lady-sovereign-random-disc-51613.jpeg

One of the few things we know about this album is that the artwork won't actually be a newspaper, dudes.

Yeah it that would be a daft assumption to make about something called a newspaper album that is made of many large sheets of paper and comes in a plastic bag.

http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/wp-content/mcsweeneyspanorama.jpg

I'm convinced it'll be like McSweeny's... seriously, how many pieces of art? Held together with what?

http://www.printeresting.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_9594.jpg

I think it's highly unlikely to be a traditional newspaper in the form of most of those album covers though, especially given what we already know about the cover. It might refer to lyrical content as well.

http://wklondon.typepad.com/welcome_to_optimism/images/2008/03/25/cover.jpg

^ wouldn't be that surprised if it turned out to be a bit like this with records in it

McSweeney's looks beautiful. What is it precisely? Want to subscribe to it.

I don't know what you guys are on about, the cover art is fantastic and hopefully indicates what the album is like.

― Most women do not like atheism.(8)(9)(10) (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 09:45 (2 hours ago)

It looks Animal Collective to me. Sort of an In Rainbows version of MPP with Thom Yorke on vocals?

It's Dave Eggers' quarterly literary magazine based in San Francisco. It has the pretty cool idea of changing format with each issue. I love the newspaper one, you can still track it down on line.

It looks Animal Collective to me. Sort of an In Rainbows version of MPP with Thom Yorke on vocals?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XoS1XkWNUVE/SZBdeXv24GI/AAAAAAAABIk/2kjn81l5_Gg/s320/Spirit+They%27re+Gone,+Spirit+They%27ve+Vanished.jpg

Nice! I was aware it was some sort of magazine but was impressed at seeing the newspaper format. A shame it's not a real, monthly or quarterly newspaper thing.

I think it's highly unlikely to be a traditional newspaper in the form of most of those album covers though, especially given what we already know about the cover. It might refer to lyrical content as well.

i think it might just mean "suitable for lining the cat's litterbox with"

Hmmm... looks like it's time to go hatebomb a Ciara thread...

I dunno, CDs are generally not very absorbent.

http://www.redtelephone66.com/albumart/imligaz.jpg

http://www.chartstats.com/images/artwork/29561.jpg

eight tracks? is this confirmed? also is that You Tube tracklist real?

some lols here from Vice. not my favourite magazine in the world has to be said but..
http://www.viceland.com/music/2011/02/new-radiohead-album-the-first-review/

Youtube tracklist is fan made.

I like the way Vice has two intros on their made up review. That's something that ruined HTTT and In Rainbows for me is the awkward sequencing where the first two songs sound like first tracks.

Yeah, 2+2=5 and Sit Down Stand Up are both good tunes, but fairly similar structurally.

Xpost if radiohead got together with McSweeneys to do something together I would pay more than £30 for it. I spend enough on them separately as it is.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/War_Love_is_All_Around.jpg

http://www.bagism.com/img/albums/sometime-nyc-cover.jpg

http://www.bagism.com/img/albums/sometime-nyc-cover.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u2EwiNSE81o/SZ6fKS54FII/AAAAAAAAAl4/bqEtILY_POI/s400/Jefferson+Airplane+-+Volunteers.jpg

I ask for a truce with the newspaper album pics until the actual album gets released.

Mmm found this tracklist on atease. I'm an idiot for still laughing at fart jokes.

(1) Thom farting
(2) Jonny farting
(3) Phil farting
(4) Colin farting
(5) Ed farting
(6) Thom and Jonny farting in turns
(7) The whole band farting at once
(8) Lift

I ask for a truce with the fart jokes until the actual album gets released.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kP6z2XRkzsQ/Slx0nesCIGI/AAAAAAAAHIo/hzFOd2virII/s400/fart.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EJM6TDHF1rg/TMnttpAf-wI/AAAAAAAAGbw/5L51KzqMeW8/s1600/no_newspaper.png

It's good news.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leba3hIzCB1qzcik8o1_500.gif

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61mSabXVfsL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

^ this thing's getting uglier by the minute

Looks like it's on XL in the UK btw

That's virtually unreadable.

The last one was on XL.

The amount of not so subtle changes in the cover's type is leading me to believe this might not be the actual cover... maybe it's more like a teaser of the final product.

I think it's highly unlikely to be a traditional newspaper in the form of most of those album covers though, especially given what we already know about the cover. It might refer to lyrical content as well.

i think it might just mean "suitable for lining the cat's litterbox with"

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 12:32 (5 hours ago) Bookmark

oh SHIT! Somebody gonna need some aloe for that BURN
Get off the bus - you just got TAKEN TO SCHOOOOOL

Why are Radiohead so fucking shit at album covers? They're supposed to be a fairly arty band with a lot of aestheticism going on, so why does every cover look like some sort of messy collage project made by children with learning difficulties? I mean, the only one that's vaguely iconic is The Bends - and even that's complete shit.

Stanley Donwood has made the album covers all the way back the bends, fwiw, although Thom collaborates on it with him, I think.

the best part about mp3s is never having to look at album covers

p.sure donwood had an exhibition last year consisting of mock newspapers covered in dripping paint w/ drawings of creatures attacking each other

xps I don't think Radiohead has been trying for iconic.

The OK Computer cover is great.

I mean, the only one that's vaguely iconic is The Bends - and even that's complete shit.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leba3hIzCB1qzcik8o1_500.gif

at leas 'the bends' is an image... 'amnesiac' has to take the cake as the worst

lol @ 344 post about the cover art!
never change ilm

the archive format conversation was better

otm

This cover will get worse every time it is saved in a lossy compression format. Radiohead sucks.

huh?

conflating the two burning issues in this thread

I like the cover of Amnesiac, the simple but bold colour scheme works well. OK Computer has a very nothingy cover, I think.

i think the Kid A cover is great. the rest are all whatever, though HTTT's is fun to look at, at first

XP: A man who takes on all the kids on his estate for letting down the tyres on his car just to get stabbed for his troubles is simple but bold. The cover of OK Computer fits the themes of the album perfectly.

http://www.mike-gordon.com/gallery/albums/2306f.jpg
new album cover reminds me of this cover. but this cover is good.

Hopefully the new album doesn't jam

that phish album is way more off-kilter pop than jam

$60bucks?!?!?!?

What's $60? I thought it was 48

The OK Computer cover is great.

it's good (and the art for album that revered usually ends up 'iconic'). Kid A's and Amnesiac's alright. In Rainbows cover sucked. colours and text on this new one really ruin it for me.

sometimes think bands like this should just have a nice (even if 'ironic') photo of them on the cover and stop fronting.

that phish album is way more off-kilter pop than jam

otm, and because of that one of their best

They remind me of some Miyazaki monster:

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSgKdoZxutZ5yUP3B94kVmx2YVdm0D7E3QuOWbbK11Ljml1KVHJbg

I ask for a truce with the Phish comparisons until the actual album gets released.

oh man was the HTTT cover fun in high school. i think i drew my own versions of it even. with my own oblique vaguely dystopian buzzwords.

i like this cover a lot actually but i kind of think of radiohead as a joke about radiohead now.

oh man was the HTTT cover fun in high school.

Boy, I know turning forty in a couple of weeks will be a little weird for me, I just didn't realize HOW weird.

Even I was out of high school by the time HTTT came out. D:

Radiohead formed 26 years ago! Christ.

Give it seven more years and they'll be older than Jesus.

STOP

The members of Mumford and Sons were being born when Radiohead formed...

Already having a hard enough time dealing with the fact that Richard D James is 40 this year xp

Ha you're old. Oh wait. *coughs, leans on cane*

Give it seven more years and they'll be older than Jesus.

thom seems like the kinda guy who'll have a kierkegaardian crisis when this happens.

if it helps, i was an upperclassman.

Fear and Trundling

Either/Or Sliding Doors

I was in my freaking third tertiary course when HTTT came out. Now I wear slippers and have my hair set on Mondays.

The Sickness Unto Death can probably be used unchanged

Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments

god i have this giant mp3 folder of EVERY RADIOHEAD B-SIDE and now i want to put it on and ugh.

fucking love "palo alto".

Every time I see what we think is the cover of the new album I get Optimistic/In Limbo in my head. It's a perfect image for those songs.

I am digging Thom's (supposed) "alternate" tracklist for HTTT I found somewhere and might not actually be legit:

There There
The Gloaming
Sail to the Moon
Sit Down Stand Up
Go To Sleep
Where I End and You Begin
Scatterbrain
2+2=5
Myxomatosis
Wolf at the Door

Doesn't have Backdrifts on, which is my favourite.

I like all the tracks he left off, but I must say it flows rather nicely without them.

aside from "scatterbrain", the segue from "the gloaming" into "there there" is the only part of that album i really really love, so that'll have to be fixed.

god i have this giant mp3 folder of EVERY RADIOHEAD B-SIDE and now i want to put it on and ugh.

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, February 15, 2011 9:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha me too

iirc HTTT came out during my sophomore year of highschool. i think that was also the year i discovered pfork, through a google search for Porcupine Tree of all things

I've been tracking down all the Thom Yorke remixes/singles I've yet to hear rather than listening back to all the RH records. "Hearing Damage" is a beaut.

Finally got & listened to Bodysong today. Grebt.

<3 bodysong.

"Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses" is a bit of a monster.

When HTTT came out I felt like one of the younger posters on ILX. Now I feel like one of the oldest.

First review of the new album:

http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/02/15/new-radiohead-album-the-first-review/

Aphex Twin is only 39???

^^^ srsly

that means he was in his early 20s last time he was relevant...

hey guys just came to add a lol. also that i'm excited and annoyed at myself for being excited.

^^^ srsly

that means he was in his early 20s last time he was relevant...

― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 10:28 (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

Druqks wasn't relevant? There's a little British band who were bigging up his style quite a bit when it came out.

Kid A came out almost ten years ago now BTW.

Hmm, I remember buying it, then took it back to the shop
Me: "It's skipping"
Shop: "It's supposed to sound like that"
Me: "Gimme another one"
Shop: "OK"

Second one was better.

Hmm, I remember buying it, then took it back to the shop
Me: "It's skipping"
Shop: "It's supposed to sound like that"
Me: "Gimme another one"
Shop: "OK"

Second one was better.

― Mark G

Same thing happened to me with Amnesiac. Only mine I think was really skipping.

(Mine was, also)

http://www.ateaseweb.com/radiohead2011.jpg

New band press photo. Sort of confirms suspicions this will either be their prog album or maybe something that will sound like Neil Young.

banjohead

Going for the Mumford & Sons demographic is nagl for Radiohead.

*insert inevitable Under the Greenwood Tree pun here*

"Well, Yankee, looks like maybe you done gone strayed into the wrong wood. Wouldn't you say so, boys?"

Kid A came out almost ten years ago now BTW.

OVER ten years ago.

came out on my 20th birthday iirc.

xpost You're right, I was thinking aobut Amnesiac. Ulp! Kid A came out on my 20th birthday as well!

1. Banjo the Cobwebs Out of the Sky (4:18)
2. Gucci Little Figgy (6:23)
3. Uptight (Everything's Alright) (Stevie Wonder cover) (3:45)
4. Either/Or Sliding Doors (4:08)
5. One Partridge in a Pear Tree, Two Turtle Doves, Three French Hens, Four Calling Birds, Five Golden Rings and the Six Wives of Henry VIII (12:46)
6. The Amazing Sounds of Porgy and Bess (1:36)
7. Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (2:30)
8. Under The Greenwood Tree (7:13)

^Real officialest tracklist

Better than the vice one

That promo pic just reminds me of a different album that was announced one week before it's release:
<img src="http://www.lonelyreviewer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/consoler.jpg";>

http://www.lonelyreviewer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/consoler.jpg

Considering it's a newspaper sort of thing I wouldn't be surprised if song titles read like onion headlines, eg:

1. Fat Kid Successfully Avoids Ridicule by Swimming with Shirt On
2. 6 Year Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss of Formal Schooling
3. U.S. Launches AIDS-Awareness Campaign In Botswana: ‘You All Have AIDS,’ Says U.S.
4. Peregrine Falcon Acting Pretty Cocky Since Being Taken Off Endangered Species List
5. CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
6. Johnson & Johnson Introduces 'Nothing But Tears' Shampoo To Toughen Up Newborns
7. Evangelical Scientists refute Gravity with New "Intelligent Falling" Theory
8. Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation

do another, i think you might really get it on the next go

no, you do one.

1. Rubaiyat
2. Each individual into a spark
3. Ferere Roche
4. Vandelabra
5. On the passing of a more innocent time on Wednesday
6. Bit
7. Elongated Paranumbre
8. Rock and Roll Weekend

#5 sounds like it'll be an intriguing look back to their early years as 'On A Friday'

1. Speaker Speaker (3:10)
2. Trawl (6:47)
3. Mangrove Inertia (2:10)
4. Kleptodraniac (5:13)
5. The Realest Loudest Most Impossible Thing (1:01)
6. Loudmouth (The Inhaler) (5:03)
7. The Thirst (7:32)
8. So It Goes (18:46)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/angrycustomer.jpg

I just panned most of the thread, but did anyone say what exactly the "newspaper" album thing is supposed to be/mean?

Based on the photo upthread, I'd say they (like every British band of the 60s, and maybe Radiohead are just catching on) want to be the Band. I just imagined what Yorke would sound like trying to sing "Up On Cripple Creek." Didn't turn out so well.

god help me but i am anticipating this. i haven't ever actively disliked a radiohead album

never heard pablo honey then?

I don't think it's going to be a cover based on a "newspaper" like the pics up thread. On the website it says, *world's first* newspaper album. I'm guessing that with the info provided on the website, that it will be a kind of create your own album cover.

purpose-built record sleeve

What is a purpose-built sleeve? Just a basic cardboard record sleeve with nothing on it?

Many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together.

Maybe all these art pieces are to go on the purpose-built sleeve as you see fit. Meaning, YOU are the artist for the cover. I mean, 625 pieces of artwork are a lot of pieces to mess with.

never heard pablo honey then?

― if there is a King Moaty, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, February 16, 2011 7:37 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

haw. yeah, i've never actually gotten into it? not like "nope, not for me" but never really took the time. i started w/ok computer and never felt compelled to go backwards

bends is dope, kid

my iron lung is a jam for the ages

talking of which, i personally want 8 talk show hosts.

whoops forgot about the bends---i love it!

Radiohead is still my favorite band so I'm stoked for this. I wonder at what time will we be able to download this on Saturday?

are there any songs to listen to yet or

Also, are we certain this is giong to be eight tracks? (Sorry if source was given upthread - I just skipped through this thread)

actually just dug out my HS 'driving to school' cd wallet and imported the bends. a hoy hoy 2 u, a hoy hoy

^ I use to use those CD wallets back in the day. Made all of my CDs unplayable after awhile iirc.

With the In Rainbows release they sent out the download e-mails in waves, I think I got mine at like 5 in the morning.

there were like weekly tragedies in high school where someone-or-other's CD wallet would get stolen. it happened so often i always stayed away from them.

this thread has been living hell but i'm heavily anticipating this.

xxpost. Just checked my gmail and it looks like I got mine at 2am Eastern time last time.

Jim
American Pop Culture is sickening. One of the greatest bands ever, Radiohead, will release a new album Saturday and it wont get 1/100th the fanfare a new Justin Bieber single would.
Today, 4:55:06 PM EST

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2011/02/16/how-worrisome-is-bieber-fever.aspx

there were like weekly tragedies in high school where someone-or-other's CD wallet would get stolen. it happened so often i always stayed away from them.

― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, February 16, 2011 8:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

lol this was definitely a thing. mine was actually a CD lozenge. like literally an ovaloid (z) disc (x,y) that accordioned into storage. i bought two of them.

once i figured out that discmans (men?) were allowed in certain school situations (bus, should you be bussing; study hall; between class; lunch if w/e), i just brought the thing with me

are there any songs to listen to yet or

― kl0p's son (k3vin k.), j

It seems the strongest and one of the most rehearsed of the unreleased songs is 'present tense'. There's several live recordings of it around the internet.
Johnny has used an instrumental version of it on his upcoming 'Norwegian Wood' soundtrack so this either means they really like the song or maybe they were deciding on removing it and Johnny rescued it to use it there.

Check out recordings of full song in Mexico city and of Thom playing it solo:

http://www.citizeninsane.eu/thepresenttense.html

Might be the echo-y quality but music sounds Sigur Ros-ian.

thanks, ian

A rather slow day of updates, but Radiohead posted a tweet today:

渋谷 ハチ公広場 金曜日 １８時５９分

which google translates as

Hachiko Square Shibuya, 59 minutes at 18 Friday

I'm guessing 18 is for the hour and not for the date, so:

18:59:00 Friday February 18, 2011 in Japan converts to
09:59:00 Friday February 18, 2011 in GMT

Hey I just remembered the webcasts they did after In Rainbows, I hope they do some of that again this time. Those were really fun.

Xpost are you saying that's when they'd release the mp3s? Seems more likely that they'd play a show there.

Nope I have the suspicion they will either broadcast some sort of announcement on the big screens at Hachiko square or even more probably (and better!) do a webcast like the ones they did for IR and Kid A.

Hachiko square has too much affluence... doesn't seem like an adequate place for shows. There's loads of screens in there tho so they might have rented some seconds to broadcast.

http://www.photopassjapan.com/images/img%206657%20tokyo%20shibuya%20eki%20mae%20hachiko%20square%20kosaten%20-%20shibuya%20station%20hachiko%20square%20crossing%20q%20front%20tsutaya%20building%20starbucks%20cafe%20panorama%20window.jpg

Godzilla-sized version of the Radiohead bear emerges, eats everyone.

Godzilla-sized version of the Radiohead bear emerges, eats everyone.

― Ned Raggett,

http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/ab318/turismo417/UltramanandThom.jpg

cheers for the new desktop wallpaper

Okay so allegedly whatever's happening in Japan is in three hours.

The only thing that's stopping me preordering this (mp3) album is the chance of DRM.

Radiohead event in Shibuya cancelled due to safety concerns. Website broadcast planned. http://bit.ly/gR6DYR

" People bummed about the Radiohead non-event can enjoy a "special online thingummy" here at 18:59: http://thekingoflimbs.jp "

ie in a couple of hours GMT

Radiohead don't believe in DRM, Autumn Almanac. And In Rainbows did not have DRM.

AWES <3

So apparently I wasn't that off on my prediction. They were set to broadcast 6 minutes of something in one of the screens on Shibuya but apparently it has been cancelled and instead they'll do some sort of webcast from the japanese website. Anyone interested I suppose will get to see something over here in an hour:
https://thekingoflimbs.jp/index.php

Dissapointed about the Shibuya thing, the whole thing sounded like a brilliant marketing tactic. Maybe too good in fact... apparently they didn't expect such a crazed response from fans... even the japanese government got concerned.

what, that they might not have been able to see from where they would have been standing?

http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/

Apparently a video to Lotus Flower.

so this is not really their folk / prog record but their disco funk record it seems.

I honestly don't know what I just watched.

I like it!!

Great video, great tune, A+ dance moves

Well I loved the song but I don't think he's much of a dancer to support a whole video of it, still love it. Also jamiroquai has better hats.

I like the song and love the fact that he obviously couldn't give a flying fuck about looking like an idiot.

Doesn't sound too much like Radiohead tho... it's closer to Thom Yorke's solo stuff.

Doesn't sound too much like Radiohead tho... it's closer to Thom Yorke's solo stuff.

I'd welcome that sound on this album tbh

Of all the more recent live material, this is one of my least favorite songs. And I don't think they added much to it other than a kind of cliched Radiohead gloss.

Video for 'Lotus Flower' from The King of Limbs

Produced and Directed by Garth Jennings
Choreographed by Wayne McGregor
Director of Photography- Nick Wood
Editor- Leila Sarraf

Choreographed????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/feb/18/radiohead-king-of-limbs-live

I like it, seems like a grower.

Ace song. Bought the album.

SEE MEN IN SUITS, OFFER A DECENT PRICE AND SIMULTANEOUS WORLDWIDE RELEASE AND PEOPLE WON'T STEAL YR PRODUCTS

OTM.

Apparently the release might be today instead of tomorrow?

Yup. Link I posted upthread is also confirmed by xl

http://www.xlrecordings.com/

Today would be good, means I can listen to it at lunchtime/on my way home rather than inflicting it on my Radiohead-hating gf tomorrow.

don't think it will be out anytime soon tho... probably in around 4 or 5 hours.

If it does come out today I won't be able to listen to it till tomorrow by which time this thread will have 3000 posts, the record will have been dissected to death and everyone'll be bored of it.

Well, at least the poll won't have concluded.

growing on me a bit

Anyone who ordered, check order tracking because the album is available for download right now.

Good lord, so it is. Cheers for the tip-off.

(I won't get to listen to it until tomorrow but hey)

Guessing that traffic will be that heavy that downloads won't complete until Sunday anyhow.

Yeah, mine's already slowed to 24k (30-40 mins).

Got it. Longest track is 5.20, bad luck LJ.

Here’s the track list.

1. Bloom
2. Morning Mr Magpie
3. Little By Little
4. Feral
5. Lotus Flower
6. Codex
7. Give Up The Ghost
8. Separator

1. Bloom (5:14)
2. Morning Mr Magpie (4:40)
3. Little By Little (4:27)
4. Feral (3:12)
5. Lotus Flower (5:00)
6. Codex (4:46)
7. Give Up The Ghost (4:50)
8. Separator (5:20)

Sorry LJ, no 8-minute epics. Suppose that means it must be shit.

If it does come out today I won't be able to listen to it till tomorrow by which time this thread will have 3000 posts, the record will have been dissected to death and everyone'll be bored of it.

― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), vrijdag 18 februari 2011 11:50 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark

QFT... Hopefully we'll be in time to catch the second backlash!

The opener is sounding very much like something off The Eraser.

Shuffly slightly out of synch sounding drums, no immediate catchiness.

It needs to sound like the album cover (or have a different cover) or I will be mad.

wow, didn't expect to be hearing this tonight/ this morning.

Nothing either proggy or folky so far.