a grower/sleeper/quiet radiohead album sounds good to me right now. can't wait to hear this!
― i love it when a suggest ban comes together (cajunsunday), Friday, 18 February 2011 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
ooh that Telegraph review...
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Are there any track-by-tracks better than the Telegraph one around? They seem to have got a sixth former in to write it.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap)
Mine upthread of course.
― Moka, Friday, 18 February 2011 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
So... are the Tim Hecker and PJ Harvey albums better than this one?
― Moka, Friday, 18 February 2011 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
PJ's is for sure. I haven't heard the Hecker album.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 February 2011 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Still waiting for the postman to bring me the Tim Hecker. Got high hopes though.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Friday, 18 February 2011 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Hate the PJ bar one or two tracks, like-love this so far, haven't heard the Tim Hecker yet.
― Melissa W, Friday, 18 February 2011 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe no dubstep influence but there's a VERY obvious Flying Lotus influence on the first song, especially the part that sounds like someone photocopying an orchestra. You could put it on Cosmogramma and no one would notice. Predictably enough, seeing as Thom Yorke is actually on Cosmogramma.
Only heard the first three songs but it sounds like this is their rhythm album. They've never really done beats particularly well but they seem to be doing so here, picking up from where 15 Step left off. The percussion loop on Little By Little is lovely, like a faster Matias Aguayo, or 10 Villalobos records played over one another.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 February 2011 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ouOkdgteoY
― StanM, Friday, 18 February 2011 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 February 2011 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
A meme is born.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
'their rhythm album' is a rly dispiriting phrase
― roy stride or die (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah that video is total viralbait, there'll be versions of Thom Yorke dancing to Just Dance, Whip My Hair, hell, any song you can think of within days.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 February 2011 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
damn, wasn't expecting this to be out already, gonna be a long workday now
― ciderpress, Friday, 18 February 2011 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
u don't have to listen to it
― roy stride or die (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Codex is pretty.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Figures, the site's completely swamped now.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 February 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah wait...working. I might get to hear this this morning after all.
me: ten minutes ago, waking up to click on this thread to see what the japan thing was *OMGOMGOMG*me: two songs in, thinking waste of £6. Did their rhythm section has a collective aneurysm?
― if there is a King Moaty, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
'Give Up The Ghost' the one that stood out for me on first listen. Playing through a second time now.
― waka flocka flamini (pandemic), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
All four second half tracks seem really solid, undecided on the first half.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Guardian review:http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/18/radiohead-king-limbs-first-review
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
It's getting better as it goes along - up to Lotus Flower which is alright. But honestly I'm cool with forgetting this existed by the end of the day. At least In Rainbows had meme tracklistings.
― if there is a King Moaty, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
if i read correctly upthread that there's a dubstep vibe to some of this, that will prompt me to order it asap.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 February 2011 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
that said Shlubstep iirc
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
its doesn't have guitars != dupstep afaik but what do i know i don't get paid to write for the torygraph
― if there is a King Moaty, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Codex sounds alright, I like the big stabs of piano.
― if there is a King Moaty, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Opener is pleasingly Four Tet-y.
― Simon H., Friday, 18 February 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Guardian and NME reviews: We dont really like this but it will probably grow on us ...aka we'll play it safe and we wont actively dislike it in case everybody else thinks it was one of the best records come the end of the year.
― Moka, Friday, 18 February 2011 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Could be loosely construed as being dubstep influenced, but only loosely. Unless my ipod dock is cutting out shitloads of sub bass.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
"grow on us"
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 February 2011 14:02 (8 minutes ago)
― roy stride or die (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
pffff . . . this is just telling me to avoid reading the reviews.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 February 2011 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
You'll be disappointed if you're expecting a dubstep vibe but they've obviously been listening to a lot of post-dubstep and that comes out in 'Feral', especially the bass in the second half. Four Tet maybe a better comparison point - 'Separator' especially reminds me of the beat on 'She Moves She'.
Love the whole thing on first listen, I like how the first half is very repetitive and polyrhythmic and then it opens out into the ballads in the second half. 'Lotus Flower' feels very different melodically to anything else they've done but I'm struggling to put my finger on why.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 February 2011 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Lotus Flower reminds me most of Backdrifts, one of my favourite HTTT cuts.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok yeah otm whoever said SECOND HALF BETTER THAN TEH FIRST. May have even done enough to make me listen to this again. Really though I just wanna find out my copy of HTTT after that and treat listening to it like a cold shower.
― if there is a King Moaty, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
if we have to deal with MY BIG DARK HANDSOME FANTASY MAN esque craziness and reviews all year then grrr. If not, I may end up enjoying half of this record when I feel obliged to listen to it once a year.
― if there is a King Moaty, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not through this yet and I can already guarantee you that this will not get that sort of critical response.
― Simon H., Friday, 18 February 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
This sounds a bit like two kinda disparate EPs stuck together - makes me think there's more material to come this year.
Hopefully black metal influenced.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Given that King of Limbs is quite a restrained subtle album and the Kanye record is the exact opposite I'd say Simon H otm.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 February 2011 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually it'd be a pretty neat trick to put this record out, then six months later release an album of twelve world-beating rock anthems without warning.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
otoh its radiohead guys
― if there is a King Moaty, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah but this is really more Thom Solo Mk II, which I don't think is what any critical establishment really wants/expects from them.
― Simon H., Friday, 18 February 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
IE, as someone else noticed upthread, they pretty well ditched the build-catharsis mode of songwriting/arranging.
― Simon H., Friday, 18 February 2011 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
It sort of threatens to do that towards the end of track two, then just eases back into the shuffly despondent groove. Possibly this is Thom Yorke's idea of being mischievous.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think it's Thom Solo Mk II - it feels like Phil is the bedrock of everything going on here and it's all about the interplay between the various bandmembers. The Eraser feels very rudimentary in comparison.
A Hoy Hoy - I don't get what you're saying? That's its going to get mad critical hype? Yeah, durr, but probably no more than In Rainbows did.
Tom E pointed out that actually this is the sort of hype you get when a new Lady Gaga video appears. Announcement and brief anticipation beforehand, then bang straight up for snap social media judgements. They're comfortable with working in this climate in a way other bands don't seem to be.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 February 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Gorgeous, subtle music.
― Touch of Death, Friday, 18 February 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey I haven't heard this yet, but wasn't In Rainbows a relatively short, slightly more subtle game of two parts (those parts being the first two tracks versus the rest of the album) as well?
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
It's like In Rainbows meets Amnesiac I think.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 February 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link