In Rainbows - Radiohead

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago at Mar 29 6:26

Let's ignore all the hype surrounding this record for a minute - sure, it was noble of one of the best British bands of the past decade to offer this album online with the user free to pay the band any price they wanted. But most fans wanted the actual copy anyway, instead of a few MP3's on a computer. Let's take a better look at the music itself. The music is good, it's clean, it's pop. Radiohead hasn't been this clean cut since the days of The Bends and OK Computer. What followed after those two records were experiment after experiment - computer sounds in the form of Kid A and the second part, Amnesiac, and the mix of all their sounds on Hail to the Thief. Here, Radiohead returns to the inwards sounds that made them so popular in the first place and it is indeed nice to know they ...Read more

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 1 year, 10 months ago at Jan 30 18:50

There's always a fear when one of your favourite artists is about to release a new album that it wont be as good as their previous work. I must admit that I am a pessimist when it comes to these situations and I was crouching in my Anderson shelter, hard-hat on, braced for the worst when Radiohead release In Rainbows. How dare I doubt their genius for even a second! The album generated a lot of publicity from the potentially revolutionary way it was released, but that's not the only reason it sold copies, it's just a solid album from start to finish. It's a complete work and that is rare these days. The stand out tracks really do stand out and 'Reckoner' and 'Weird Fishes' still continue to knock me out whenever I listen to them even now after multiple plays. In typical Radiohead styl...Read more

Rating : 8/10