Radiohead - The King of Limbs

30 minutes left on my download!!! On slower internet than usual as I'm in South Africa....

Cannot effing wait.

lol @ an 8-track album taking 30 mins

ROLLING MCNULTY THREAD

the references to Flying Lotus, Four Tet, Aguayo, Villalobos on one hand make me really excited (would LOVE radiohead to take a turn to those sounds); alternatively, all those guys are such absolute fucking masters of their crafts that i doubt radiohead can improve on anything they already do very well. it would be like one of them trying to make a Radiohead record, right? who would want to hear that?

I may have overegged the pudding a bit with Villalobos. But they've definitely been listening to a lot of that stuff and it's coming through in the drums if nothing else, but saying that Radiohead are "turning to those sounds" would be excessive.

Calm down dear, it's only a parody ;-)

I thought it was a quote from a serious review.

Most of my listening is what it is. There is no throughline.

the references to Flying Lotus, Four Tet, Aguayo, Villalobos on one hand make me really excited (would LOVE radiohead to take a turn to those sounds); alternatively, all those guys are such absolute fucking masters of their crafts that i doubt radiohead can improve on anything they already do very well. it would be like one of them trying to make a Radiohead record, right? who would want to hear that?

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:50 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Well this is exactly how I felt about Kid A when it first came out; that it was a thinly-veiled attempt at Warp-style IDM that had failed. It took a long time for me to get over that hump, being a huge Autechre/Twin fan at the time of release. I hear it completely differently now, maybe because it went on to influence more music than it was previously influenced by; so in context it's absolutely marvellous.

Calm down dear, it's only a parody ;-)

I thought it was a quote from a serious review.

― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:54 (47 seconds ago) Bookmark

Gotcha!

Site back up, quick transaction, DL'ed in less than a minute. Nice.

my download was super fast btw

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

― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:25 (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

My download is fluctuating between 14 kb/s and 50 kb/s, but I must say I am enjoying the anticipation.

I never really saw Kid A as IDM but more of like an electronic Krautrock album. It is basically one big tribute to Neu!/Can/Kraftwerk; the title track is very similar to "Radioland", for instance. I like Kid A a lot more because of that.

Thom had apparently bought up the whole Warp back catalogue not too soon before writing Kid A, but I'm sure Kraut came into it too (not so familiar with Can and Neu!, I really ought to be). In retrospect there's a LOT more going on with Kid A than simply being an Autechre album with guitar and vocal as I once thought.

I don't like this album anymore. I think it's fucking shit.

lol

uhhhh guys the dancing Thom Yorke vid for "Lotus Flower" is really creepy, looks like some shit out of A Clockwork Orange! and yeah this is really FlyLo/Warp + krautrock sounding

i listened to 'everything in its right place' the other day and that sounds absolutely monstrous now compared to the thin synth sounds and spacious/empty production that is in vogue right now

it's just the hat dude.

xpost

It's the face.

on first listen this didn't really grab me or blow me away. seemed like a lot of the songs started with an interesting rhythmic idea but then that idea didn't really get developed upon. makes me wonder if the songwriting was loop-based (ie taking a segment of a jam or something a band member brought in, looping it, and then adding stuff on top), it has that feel.

Maybe this is Radiohead's Remain In Light then? Also based on looping and jamming.

I've read that comparison more than once now!

listening to that acoustic version of 'mr magpie' makes me think that maybe these started as songs, and got deconstructed until they were happy with them. the hooks seem to be popping out to me more even on the second listen.

ha that lotus flower video is a gift to all makers of animated gifs

This is wicked so far guys.

Trumpets on Codex! Spectacular. Have a feeling this'll take longer to unpack than IR. Way too much to process on listen 1. That means it's probably great, by the way.

loooooooool xxp

regardless of how it was made this album does not at all resemble remain in light

This is why you never post on RYM:

Topic: So Radiohead's going to have the top album for the 90s 00s and 10s
Message: Assuming LP8 will be a typical Radiohead album

'Little By Little' is pretty great, very HTTT imo. Also think j0rdan OTM above. The hooks definitely are there.

"Little by little, by hook or by crook. I'm such a tease and your such a flirt." I think that's what the line is anyway.

Youtube links:

Bloom
Morning Mr Magpie
Little By Little
Feral
Lotus Flower
Codex
Give Up The Ghost
Separator

Oh man, the speculation about another album has started already:
"The final track Is Called "Separator" and the last line is "If you think this is over then you're wrong'"

knew it

Also think j0rdan OTM above

i know it's confusing but j0rdan is the other jordan

would be really cool if they released more stuff tomorrow. is this really all they can come up with in 4 years?

Also think j0rdan OTM above

i know it's confusing but j0rdan is the other jordan

― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, February 18, 2011 5:27 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Sorry!

He bought all the Warp back catalogue ... and was influenced by Maximo Park's bowler hat.

In Rainbows felt really cold and boring to me but this is making me very, very happy.

Also the drums on the first four songs sound, like, exactly the same.

same drummer iirc

Hearing the live versions of the few songs that made it... Fun to compare, see what they did to them in the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDl-oAiLL5U

thom looking very 1994 in that youtube still frame

same drummer iirc

except he doesn't play on those songs? always had the sense that phil isn't that involved in the drum programming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF3Ygqu95KE&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIMCO-s2gKc

revealing itself after the third or so spin to be quite the gentle, opulent grower. as others have said, the second half is very strong. i have no problem with how the album's paced -- there seems to be an intelligent logic to the structure with the last two songs serving as a subtle and fitting apex.

did flea play bass on the record? anything flea or RHCP-related veers into insta-hate territory for me

This is really interesting to read all the thoughts, what with not being able to hear it until tonight. (YouTube blocked at work and can't download til I get home). I am breaking down and ordering the deluxe package though.