Been too busy watching that Lotus Flower video while playing different music against it, like Justin Bieber's Somebody to Love and Lady Gaga's Born This Way. Someone needs to mix a video of that.
What was that Jordy the baby song?
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Try it with 'I Like To Move It Move It'.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
A glassy, opaque guitar slides in as Yorke begins pleading for someone to wake him up, presumably from the somnambulistic state of modern life, in which man is cut off, separated from nature and true reality, although he could also be singing about the end of this drowsily hypnotic, dreamlike collection of songs.
So when does the new Bieber album come out??
― frogbs, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
okay listening to "Lotus Flower" now and YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS this is basically what I want them to sound like all the time
― DJP, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
in which man is cut off, separated from nature and true reality
Better still.
― DL, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the tune. But the video and its star's clumsy mirror moves reminds me of why Yorke is such a putz.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Slowly sliding backwards as it ebbs to and fro, Yorke's detached plaintive cathartic ululations hover restlessly over guarded yet ever-present synth. Syncopated rhythms cascade quietly like so many bats escaping the dawn. A kind of post-step paean to twilight echoing forever over washes of treated guitar feedback. This is Radiohead at their very best, but at the same time one worries it might not live up to the giddy standards of previous masterpieces.
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, he's not listened to it either yet.
― Mark G, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
This is Radiohead at their very best, but at the same time one worries it might not live up to the giddy standards of previous masterpieces.
What. the. fuck. Shut up shut up shut up shut up. Don't write any more please.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Gorgeous:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=radiohead+king+of+limbs&aq=f
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 this record so far
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDojAE7oZo8
Mmm, post-step
― DL, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't blame a blogger for bashing out a quick one for the new Radiohead, but that guy has really worked himself into a lather. I think he might actually need catheterising.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Aww, the site's down for the moment.
― old man yells at poop first thing in the morning (pixel farmer), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:39 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
Calm down dear, it's only a parody ;-)
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
and no, I haven't heard it yet.
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
It is the best Radiohead album. Is it the best? Some might not think so. But it might be.
― frogbs, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Given the chances, it very well could be!
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
skimmed this thread, haven't heard the album and will probably wait for the CD release.
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Really enjoyed it on a first listen here. Quiet, contemplative, elegiac, especially liked how it was sequenced as it went. Sure I was predisposed for it but I'm happy to be.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Even if there can't be found a single person on earth who thinks it's their best album, it still might be.
xp
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Goodness – "Bloom" is a grottier variant on this track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pTcO4IzhuI
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
The ultimate Radiohead gaff would be if the boys actually released a bunch of Midlake outtakes in place of the real album.
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Sure I was predisposed for it but I'm happy to be.
Ned, shouldn't most of your listening these days have this disclaimer attached? just sayin...
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
30 minutes left on my download!!! On slower internet than usual as I'm in South Africa....
Cannot effing wait.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ an 8-track album taking 30 mins
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
ROLLING MCNULTY THREAD
― if there is a King Moaty, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Most of my listening is what it is. There is no throughline.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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.
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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.
― old man yells at poop first thing in the morning (pixel farmer), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
my download was super fast btw
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ledge, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
My download is fluctuating between 14 kb/s and 50 kb/s, but I must say I am enjoying the anticipation.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 18 February 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Friday, 18 February 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't like this album anymore. I think it's fucking shit.
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 February 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 18 February 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Friday, 18 February 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
it's just the hat dude.
xpost
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 18 February 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
It's the face.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 February 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 February 2011 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe this is Radiohead's Remain In Light then? Also based on looping and jamming.
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I've read that comparison more than once now!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 February 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 18 February 2011 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link