Radiohead - The King of Limbs

kelpolaris, not finding anything either. You absolutely sure he wasn't saying something like "composing for movies is something completely new and exciting for me after recording another studio album with the band" - because that's the vibe I got from the interviews I read with him after In Rainbows - and you translated that into "In Rainbows is boring" ?

Anyone who thinks the drums are the same on the first three songs either isn't listening properly or lacks a sense of rhythm.

Doubt either Greenwood said that, these are all collaborative projects not Yorke dictatorships.

those guitars at the beginning of 'little by little' are very deceptive...pretty sure they're actually on the upbeat, but they always feel like a downbeat at first and turn the whole beat around

So far I love it. Tracks 1 - 7 have that "hmm...this is interesting, let me spend some time to get inside of this" kinda vibe. And then Separator comes in at the end with a sledgehammer delivering that "holy sh&t, this is incredible!" instant love. YMMV.

yeah, separator is an early favourite for me. along with codex.

Can definitely imagine a sequel to this. Not out of the ordinary from the way the band generally have approached recording in the past (Kid A/Amnesiac, Hail To The Thief/its bounteous supply of b-sides and In Rainbows/the companion album released with the discbox edition). What's harder to imagine is the band recording less than 40 minutes of material and stopping. But with these guys, there's no such thing as surprise, is there?

Ack...poorly worded. What I meant was "a lack of surprise"...

Maybe instead of the dramatic shift to EPs that they've been threatening since like 1998 is going to come about through a gradual shortening of running times.

'separator' has these little guitar and vocal bits that keep making me think of 'stairway to heaven' and 'just my imagination', respectively

My iTunes playlist finished this album and then started right into "Street Spirit," and for a second my ears perked up, like, oh, a melody! Then I recognized it.

I wonder if the video to Lotus Flower is in reverse? Like Like Spinning Plates except this time with dancing instead of singing?

separator is gorgeous

def the strongest track

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

HOWZIT

Nothing on this album is strong enough that I've woken up with it on my brain (I woke up with nothing on my brain). Expected to wake to a flurry of internet noise but it's not even close, and Twitter seems a bit more concerned about a client being banned, wah.

Anyway, most people will hate this.

ok

"Little by Little" is superb, reminds me of a more restrained 2+2=5. And then "Separator" blows everything else away.

mr magpie has a sweet groove. the picky guitar stuff sounds kinda african

"give up the ghost" is way more O_O than separator

i like the bass on this

I suspect this is a double album.

this sounds kinda slight on first listen - similar production/sound to in rainbows but without as much of the build+release catharsis thing that characterized a lot of their famous tracks. it's just kinda drifting. 'separator' is the lone exception at the moment

d/led the rar earlier but haven't felt like livbloggin until now

bloom -- atmospheric soundscapes from the former parlophone men, they will want to keep up this good form throughout the record's duration you feel

morning mr magpie 0:00-0.53 -- jittery stuff now from lazy eyed warbler yorke

digging thom dorke's snarly chaplin imperse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgeT2hzxrQ

Really loving Little by Little and The Ghost of Old ILX. Definitely sounds like there's more to come.

morning mr magpie 0:53-4:40 - difficult not to feel they have been listening to a lot of shitty lectrodrib music that ppl in their late 30s buy in bulk from soul jazz records.....but at the end of the day the eldritch synths restore some dignity after a disappointing first half

little by little -- this will have been seen by many as an 'anodyne' and 'solipsistic' venture from the ppl responsible for such fourth tracks as 'exit music (for a film)

feral -- yet more evidence of absorption of pastoral schaffel, chill jazz and proto-wonky tetwave idm in the shuffly and some would say indeterminately 'ethnic' polyrhythms..........redeemed by random softsynth outro, c+

lotus flower 0:00-1:57 -- difficult to appresh without the - literally - paroxysmic figure of the behatted yorke bringing the jigglepanda to the otherwise restrained radiohead brand

yorke bringing the jigglepanda

aaagh, I wish I could unimagine this now

lotus flower 1:57-5:00 -- yorke shows poise, restraint - even dignity - though some will feel he is constrained by a melodic figure insufficiently developed by his underperforming backing musicians

codex -- difficult to be facetious about this excellent song, but what about scott walker? some will feel the chiswick-based troubadour has outdone yorke with his imagist balladry in recent years - one thing is for sure though, the oft-overlooked younger greenwood brother is in fine fettle in the max richterish ersatz classical arrangements

give up the ghost -- the eponymous spectre may well be that of the comb-in-tissuepaper timbres that haunt this otherwise delicate and atmospheric piece of work from the celebrated abingdon alumni

separator - nigel godritch shines in the epigramatic closer, you feel he has outdone himself on this album, but the final word goes to seasoned lyricist yorke - who would have thought that the former on a friday man had it in him? alls well that ends well and at the end of the day you can't ask for more than that

nakhchivan, you`re killing it. we need to give you award for music criticism.

ty - feel i need to give a shout out to my longtime mentor and - i'm humbled to say - friend, phil mcnulty of the bbc

The hell? I enter my e-mail address in Order Tracking, and it says it "doesn't exist." The very same e-mail address the receipt was sent to...hmmm...

lotus flower 1:57-5:00 -- yorke shows poise, restraint - even dignity - though some will feel he is constrained by a melodic figure insufficiently developed by his underperforming backing musicians

― nakhchivan, Friday, 18 February 2011 22:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark

radiohead 1992-2011, albums 1-8

1 boring, 2 alright, 3 pretty good, 4 decent, 5 peak point, 6 good, 7 okay, 8 shite.

had a few listens and am finding this a little dull.

I've had two listens. The second one was more enjoyable, but this is maybe the first radiohead album where I'm not hearing a single song that I would like to play on repeat.

:(

which makes me really sad. i first heard about ILX through the radiohead messageboard, actually

Just got done with the first listen. I find it extremely boring and don't know if I even want to revisit it anytime soon.

Give it a second listen.

It was sort of boring on the second listen, too, but it was great played quietly at dinner tonight. This is like an album of subtle interstitials from an album we haven't heard yet.

Speaking of which, I'm curious how a band like this would do with a pledge drive model. Like, "Here is our album for sale. If we sell x copies, we will release a new single/EP/album for free."

Three times now. It's not getting better, and it's definitely one of their worst, but it's still a good album.

I think the release strategy encouraged hopes of grandeur, and perhaps the fact that it's not all that is sitting uncomfortably with some.

It's also incredibly pretentious but I mean hello it's Radiohead.

i wish i wasn't tired of his voice. how to un-tire?

sudden release = no hype = not proud of album = maximize profits w/ "revolutionary new packaging"

that doesn't really make sense, though, to say they released it suddenly because they weren't proud of it. they released in rainbows 10 days after announcing it, and that was great.

Too many ppl in here talking about In Rainbows' greatness as if it were some incontrovertible fact. Really messes with a lot of folks' credibility...