Radiohead - The King of Limbs

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.

jesus christ this download is slow

Distinct lack of dubstep, too.

Ha, I must have nipped in just before the queue started. I got mine in about five minutes.

ysi

kind of hope this thread dies now

No folk, no dubstep, no shocks (so far) - sounds an awful lot like you'd expect a Radiohead record to sound.

i'm gonna take a break from this thread starting now. i'll come back once i've given the album a few solid spins and have my own impression of it.

Well it's certainly the most oblique and understated Radiohead record for a while, a retreat into vaguely solipsistic soundscapes. The second half is stronger on first listen, certainly more traditionally melodic. Not a lot to hit you over the head, it'll take me a few goes to accurately judge the actual quality of the thing.

Everett True gets the knives out

"Sorry. I succumbed. It's like Bono, minus the 'charisma'. It's rock music, minus any of those pesky dynamics you usually associate with the form. It's like those irritating buzzing flies that always come into our kitchen around 5.30pm and buzz around the trails of blood until I get the electric badminton racket out. It's drum'n'bass, watered down and made putrid for popular consumption. It's rock music as mime: all the posturing and none of the substance. Or humour. It's rock music as midlife crisis: premature and unwanted. It's rock music as mud: grey, formless, useless. It's Radiohead. And I do not like it."

37 minutes to form a pre-conceived opinion. Not even I know what I think yet.

Does Everett True generally not like experimentation or innovation? It's rather nice & fresh indeed, imho.

Another contribution to an already overheated discourse. It's like Kanye all over again.

(Sorry, that was aimed at Everett True rather than StanM)

This album has nothing to do with drum n bass.

why does he have to keep talking abt rock music

why does he have to keep talking abt rock music

Only really posted that so i could make shit knives out pun

you creep.

why does he have to keep talking abt rock music

― Melissa W, Friday, 18 February 2011 12:01 (5 minutes ago)

Why do Radiohead have to keep making music

Because they hate you

I had no expections of this anyway, and listening to it now I realize that was probably the right way to go into it.

Because they hate you

― Number None, Friday, 18 February 2011 12:09 (55 seconds ago)

Seems harsh to criticise Everett True for being Everett True, when he's criticising Radiohead for...being Radiohead.

That Everett True thing is only about the Lotus Flower video, by the way. The rest of the album may be rock enough for him, we don't know yet.

http://www.collapseboard.com/that-new-radiohead-video-reviewed-in-full

Where did i criticise Everett True?

Only Everett True could accuse an album in 2011 of sounding like watered-down drum'n'bass. Of course he was, famously, a true junglist back in the day.

He's making a lol claim for relevancy in the post-critic era bless 'im

Seems a bit harsh to criticise a black and white video for being a bit grey.

Aight first impression:

Bloom: Not fond of the drum loop but gets better towards the middle. Weird sort of opener.
Magpie: Loving the loop thing. Sort of dance/krautrock... Fujiya and Miyagi do this sort of sound much better tho.
Little By Little: Funky percussion and downbeat guitars, sounds like Can a lot. Loving it on first listen.
Feral: I guess this is where all those weeks listening dubstep went in. I like the drum loop but nothing particulary impressive, even more considering the album is only 8 tracks long and this sounds more like one of their more experimental b-sides.
Lotus Flower: Sounds like something off of the Eraser and I'm not really listening the whole band... I guess drums and bass are real... Johnny on synths and ed... probably doing the handclaps. Catchiest song so far but probably because it's the only one I've listened more than once.
Codex: Intro stands out since it's the first song that doesn't sound dominated by electronics. Not a whole lot of things going on... it's a typical Radiohead ballad... probably a grower.
Ghost: A standout sound... sounds Neil Young-esque to me. I was actually expecting the whole album to sound something like this. It seems the thing that differentiates this album from other Radiohead albums is the lack of progressive catharsis, all of this songs are more exercises in styles and don't really seem to have definite choruses or the bombastic growing wall of sounds usually found on the other albums.
Separator: Starts off sounding like a solo thom yorke song once again but guitars around the middle lift it up and make it sound gorgeous. Sort of reminds to Scatterbrain on HTTT.

Morning Mr Magpie? so of all the unreleased tracks they've chosen to record the one I wanted them *the least* to :( What does it sound like? I mean, I love the song very much! But I don't trust Radiohead AD 2011 enough to let them mess with it.

gutted by lack of The Present Tense

The Eraser and In Rainbows did very little for me - the aberrant masterpiece of "Reckoner" excepted - but I'm still interested to hear this, but it'll probably be as disappointing as a Gerard Deaprdieu film.

Depardieu

Depradeiu

Derp adieu

Strangers in the night!

Deacon Blue

Morning Mr Magpie? so of all the unreleased tracks they've chosen to record the one I wanted them *the least* to :( What does it sound like? I mean, I love the song very much! But I don't trust Radiohead AD 2011 enough to let them mess with it.

― V79,

Lotus Flower and Ghost have been around as well. Separator is mouse dog bird.

I'm hopefully guessing they will release a series of eps (limbs?) throughout the year. Eight songs leaves me very dissatisfied considering nothing really stuck with me on first listen...

This kinda feels like an EP though. A couple of good songs and a lot of filler

Second listen, still not digging Codex except for the horns/strings. The chord progressions are kind of sappy.