Radiohead - The King of Limbs

in which man is cut off, separated from nature and true reality

Better still.

I like the tune. But the video and its star's clumsy mirror moves reminds me of why Yorke is such a putz.

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.

Yeah, he's not listened to it either yet.

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.

Gorgeous:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=radiohead+king+of+limbs&aq=f

<3 this record so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDojAE7oZo8

Mmm, post-step

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.

Aww, the site's down for the moment.

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 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

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

and no, I haven't heard it yet.

It is the best Radiohead album. Is it the best? Some might not think so. But it might be.

Given the chances, it very well could be!

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?

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.

Even if there can't be found a single person on earth who thinks it's their best album, it still might be.

xp

Goodness – "Bloom" is a grottier variant on this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pTcO4IzhuI

The ultimate Radiohead gaff would be if the boys actually released a bunch of Midlake outtakes in place of the real album.

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...

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