Radiohead - The King of Limbs

Agreed, but it's more the idea that this 1) even was a press release in the first place 2) implies that the band is not yet finished or in continuation of something... that make me go "hmm". I mean, the last album just dropped and they've already got more stuff in the works... this soon?

tbh i'm perfectly satisfied with the latest album, but it seems so odd they've yet to talk about it at all (aside from the format it'll be delivered in) and what made them go with this new, subtle style.

and just any response to the majority "wtf" opinions upon hearing this

Also, to be fair, Stanley Donwood and cohorts are partially responsible for stirring the conspiracy pot.

all previous radiohead LP's have been a big fanfare event, with the band effectively splitting up afterwards.

since they did 'harry patch' etc, feels like the modus operandi has changed - putting stuff out in as low-key manner as possible and then carrying on. seems obvious the king of limbs was a cohesive unit they felt they wanted to put out there at this point. there's rumours of a 12" on its way, more thom and jonny solo stuff etc... this conspiracy stuff feels kind of a bit embarrassing in context?

not sure i prefer the 'new' radiohead way of doing things, but resigned to the fact thats not going to matter to them one bit.

i don't understand this whole "issue"--like, i'm sure this is not the last time radiohead will release music.

― call all destroyer, Sunday, March 6, 2011 12:40 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think it's more a question of whether this is the only collection of songs they're releasing for the next 2-3 years and they're just going to tour or whatever or if there's an Amnesiac or In Rainbows bonus disc-style 'other half'

A brazilian writer/musician has a theory that the newspaper album holds an alternative tracklist as it might be packaged like a "codex". Her idea was even published on a well known music site here and I listened to the album following her idea and, for real, it gets better. Codex is still followed by GUTG, as it works perfectly on the album, but the changed sequences works very well.

It would be:

1) “Lotus Flower”
2) “Feral”
3) “Little By Little”
4) “Codex”
5) “Give Up the Ghost”
6) “Morning Mr Magpie”
7) “Bloom”
8) “Separator”

She even made a graphic to explain it better. Take a look:

http://www.oesquema.com.br/trabalhosujo/2011/02/28/the-king-of-limbs-newspaper-album-ou-codex.htm#comment-21810

^totally recommend Google Chrome for that site, it translated it near perfectly

On headphones, two weeks later...this is really very good :)

Tried listening to the alternate track listing as listed above, for the hell of it. It gets off to a good start but "Give Up the Ghost" still drags the momentum and now "Bloom" does too. It's no more or less successful than the actual track list.

Guess the dude was inspired by all the mashups:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef014e5fc4cfc1970c-600wi

Yech, having just read the article itself I'm revolted. (Not by Yorke but by the author, that's some terrible writing.)

He could do x that is weird and people would still love him is used three or four times.

That sounds great, they should get him to do a Residentadvisor podcast.

Heard "Lotus Flower" on the radio the other day, and it suddenly struck me as vaguely similar to PJ Harvey's "The Mess We're In." Which of course features Yorke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO9tA8-kbk8

god i can't believe i still haven't heard this yet...

Yech, having just read the article itself I'm revolted. (Not by Yorke but by the author, that's some terrible writing.)

cosign w/ Ned here

No one had a clue what to expect from the enigmatic frontman.

i havent seen a full setlist or anything for yorke's gig but uhhh anyone who's ever glanced at the Dead Air Space office charts would know *exactly* what to expect i'd imagine?

like, in what world would a Thom Yorke dj set *NOT* include burial, jaylib, fela, modeselektor, etc. etc.?

Actually what Lotus Flower really reminds me of is one of Apparat's vocal tracks, both the beats and the falsetto. And there's clearly some feedback loop of influence given that Thom's repped for Moderat in the past, and Apparat included Harrowdown Hill on his recent DJ Kicks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tbp0BQel4M

thom yorke was repping hard for bpitchcontrol circa 'hail to the thief'

Walls >>>>>>>>>> The King of Limbs

Yeah there's not much doubt in my head that Apparat could make a better Thom Yorke electronic record than Yorke himself can, but that's beside the point.

ilxor finally heard kol!

congrats

admittedly wasn't paying much attention, just gave it a background listen on that 30-something min. youtube video

naturlich!

this is the first Radiohead album I have ever listened to in its entirety.

maybe because it's so short lol

in rainbows was pretty short too and much better

I finally heard it! It's okay, more like a collection of b-sides though, not in an awful way.

Give up the ghost is def the jewel in the crown so far though...

this album is actually good, the problem is that you expect so much more. favorite, so far, is "Little By Little."

what i'm hoping now is, if they want to go in this direction, then release one of these things once a year. have 10 mini-albums for the next ten years.

will In Rainbows be the last classic album from Radiohead?

i wore this out the first week and now kind of forgot about it. i should return to it, I suppose.

'the universal sigh' sounds like a radiohead parody

(maybe it's meant to be?)

http://www.theuniversalsigh.com/

So, who got a copy of the newspaper?

this is happening in Toronto tomorrow. am going to see if i can snag one.

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/wp-content/media/2011/03/radiohead.jpg

BIG ISSUE LAST ONE

looks like they are in different languages depending on where you get your copy, the ones in Vienna were in German

Record Store Day single The Butcher/Super Collider (2,000 copies), April 16th

http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/03/radiohead-beastie-boys-beck-jonsi-ready-record-store-day-releases/

is that Michael Cera next to the wino?

just released 24big FLAC for all the people who spent £10 on it as .wav/.mp3 and now want to spent another £10 on a slightly better format....

Can't see that pissing off any fans out there.....

24bit, but it kinda works as 24big files....

I like this a lot more than I liked In Rainbows

hey this is pretty great! #waitedforphysicalrelease

TMI

a reach, but i'll give it to ya

TMI

(yeah, I resisted that one)

lol glad someone took it

TMI

Vinyl has made Give Up the Ghost semi-listenable.

'Give Up the Ghost' is still one of my favorites in here... has the same sort of 'pastoral'(?) feel of '4 minute warning'.