guys we're getting almost doubled by the comments on the oink torrent.
What does that mean?
Need to get home. I really want to download this album!
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't expect anything out of this record. I never cared at all for Hail to the Thief, but man. This record is really, really good. Just so sensual and quiet and so warm and I'm loving it.
― Clay, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:58 (sixteen years ago) link
It's so warm!
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― koogs, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I want to email them pretending to be someone's grandma who downloaded the wrong album for her grandson's birthday but it turns out he really wanted 'The Bends' and wants to ask if she could get an exchange or refund.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:44 (sixteen years ago) link
d/l real quick - now listening - warm is right.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Warm is good, most of their best material is warm. Radiohead have never been particularly good at doing chilly.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:47 (sixteen years ago) link
This may have been covered upthread, but am I right in assuming this record won't chart?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Xfm are doing a full album playback at 12 midday (NOW) listen in
X-clusive: Hear The New Radiohead Album Today On Xfm http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?b=news&id=490630#
first established media review of the album posted by John Mulvey @ Uncut
Uncut.co.uk | Wild Mercury Sound - Post details: Radiohead's "In Rainbows" http://tinyurl.com/2ygc7r
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 11:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Sounds nice so far.
― Mr. Perpetua, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link
is there a pop song on it?
― pisces, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 11:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, there's about 10 or so I'd say.
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Paul Morley blogging about it: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observermusic/2007/10/rainbow_warriors.html
― NickB, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
some very quick first thoughts
some tracks:
Bodysnatchers = The Notwist + Smashing Pumpkins. The most rock track on the album?
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi = Brian Eno produced U2 Unforgettable Fire
All I Need = Talk Talk + Manual + Ulrich Schnauss + Kraftwerk + The Blue Nile + The Broadway Project
Faust ARP = Beatles influenced melodies
House Of Cards - more Talk Talk and a.r.kane influences
Jigsaw Falling Into Place - more The Notwist + The Woodentops circa 1986 + even James - the way the acoustic guitars have an uptempo jangle style
Videotape - more Talk Talk / Mark Holis slow paced arty-rock piano minimalism, this even sounds like Ulver on their new album !
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Bodysnatchers starts off like a long lost Pablo Honey rarity - especially Thom's voice which he uses in a way I haven't heard in a very long time. It soon bursts into something else though.
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Will everyone stop fucking fooling themselves? This is typical Radiohead - ie: a load of boring old shit. Anyone who can compare this to Talk Talk is a really stupid cunt who needs to educate themselves on how to fucking listen asap.
― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
You can fuck off any time you want, thank you.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
open up your ears - they have used similar sound construction techniques to talk talk on this album, e.g slow paced delicate drummimg
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
King Boy Pato: you do know that Talk Talk made more than just the two hits everyone knows, right?
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Faust Arp sounds like Polyethylene part 1 crossed with Exit Music. But there's more to it once again.
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, come on.
Why am I trying to talk sense about Radiohead to Radiohead fans anyway?
*dissipates into a fog of anti-logic*
― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
It's not a million miles away from Hail To The Thief though is it? Those expecting a complete change like Kid A after the long break will be disappointed. Those expecting a great Radiohead album won't.
Pato: I don't think this is the right day to be slagging off Radiohead, even if you don't care for them.
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:11 (sixteen years ago) link
You're not "talking sense" or even just disagreeing or being critical of the album, you're being a dick and calling everyone who is enjoying the album a "really stupid cunt". Did you really expect anyone to take you seriously?
Prick.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Has there been any artwork released with the download yet?
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Correct, this is much better.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks King Boy Pato, i've now seen the error of my ways and am going to destroy all my Radiohead records as i'm clearly a stupid cunt for having them.
― leigh, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Melissa, please listen to the Ulver new track Funebre and compare it to Radiohead - Videotape - there are some similarities, both are slow paced piano tracks
myspace - Ulver http://www.myspace.com/ulver1
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I am really digging this album right now. Style is very much in the vein of HTTT but it's much much more cohesive. It's very successful at merging the two sides of their sound (rock/ambient, pop/avant, whatever you want to call it), rather than their last album which was kind of both and neither at the same time.
― MC, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Just woke up, had the mail in my inbox and the download went like a charm in two, three minutes. *NICE.* Will listen to it once I'm in at work.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Apparently, people who order it now are getting a "you are in a queue" message.
So they DID have some load balancing mail system going on. Roz' "it cut off after 30 Mb" is the only complaint I've read about the download so far, really impressive.
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Got it, listening to it, it is NOICE. Oddly upbeat for York & company- first track "15 Step" even has a repeated sample of what sounds like a crowd of children cheering.
And for the record, the 160kbps files sound fine, surprisingly so in fact. The only thing I'm annoyed about is a lack of embedded cover art in the file or a .jpg of it in the zip archive as I like to use Coverflow.
― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm printing one from www.rainbowpuke.com
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, it actually is a crowd of children cheering. :D
x-post
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I wrote these note on my semi-private site, but I may as well share with the group:
It seems rather appropriate that I hear In Rainbows for the first time in the early morning, after the rain. After "15 Step" and "Bodysnatchers," the record feels like the calm after a storm. It feels extremely light and airy -- lots of empty space, little to no strumming or heavy chords. The band are obsessed with arpeggiation, enough so that "arp" ends up part of the titles of two cuts. (I was kinda hoping that the Arp in "Faust Arp" would be a reference to Arp synthesizers, but no such luck.) It's funny, I think this album is a lot more accessible to people who listen to a lot of melancholy guitar music, but anyone who might call this easy or straightforward or wants to say that this is much of anything like pre-Kid A Radiohead has no idea what they are talking about.
I totally get why "Bangers N Mash" and "Down Is The New Up" were cut, though. They are both better than some of the songs that made the cut, but they would've radically altered the character of the album. This is a beautifully composed album, but I think a few of these songs wouldn't quite work outside of its context.
The band's discography continues to roughly mirror that of David Byrne/Talking Heads. If you count Amnesiac along with Kid A as the parallel to Remain In Light, Thom Yorke's The Eraser was his The Catherine Wheel, and In Rainbows is Radiohead's Little Creatures. I mean, it's not at all peppy, but in both cases it is a deliberate move towards simple yet very sophisticated songwriting.
― Mr. Perpetua, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought that Faust Arp would be a krautrockesque analogue synth wig out, how wrong i was...
― leigh, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
comparing this to little creatures does not bode well for me, but i'm sure i'll like it anyway
― akm, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
ha! i was wondering where the kids were!
― ^@^, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link
akm, I want to stress that I don't think it SOUNDS like Little Creatures, I just think it follows a rough parallel of the two bands' career arcs.
― Mr. Perpetua, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm getting the talk talk vibe on some of it too. nude especially.
― LaMonte, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Style is very much in the vein of HTTT but it's much much more cohesive. It's very successful at merging the two sides of their sound (rock/ambient, pop/avant, whatever you want to call it), rather than their last album which was kind of both and neither at the same time.
This pretty much hits it as far as my first impression goes. HTTT sounded kind of sloppy in that regard, a mish-mash of stuff that never cohesed (is that even a word?), but this one really works better as an album. All the tracks sit well next to each other, it has enough variation to address the various sounds the band has used over the years.
Other things: a lot of these tracks are surprisingly upbeat. Very little vocal processing, too. Like the Eraser, Thom's voice is pretty upfront and clear. Sometimes I like that, sometimes I don't.
― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, doesn't meet chart criteria.
On Last FM, '15 Step', 48,632 plays. 'Weird Fish/Arpeggi', 104 plays. Are people abandoning it so quickly? Sounds like their most accessible work since OKC.
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link
yea that BBC article was pretty dumb
― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry wrong thread maybe? it may have been on the other radiohead thread
― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
billy are you serious?!
― ^@^, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
The guitar riff on "Bodysnatchers" sounds like Wire circa Read And Burn. Me likey.
― unperson, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Loving "House of Cards."
― mike a, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Billy, I suspect it's an issue with the tagging?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
The sound feels really un-labored over. They've still got all their tricks, but it's almost all live drums and it feels like there aren't as many layers as on the last couple. It reminds me the most of Amnesiac, except with way less electronics?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
lol @ Radiodread on "House of Cards"
I presume you mean about Lastfm? Yes.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2363/1532701141_adeb06ae7d.jpg?v=0
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link