Radiohead: In Rainbows
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:00
Right now, no art forum on the planet is without a topic on Radiohead's new album, In Rainbows. Since we're all jolly bandwagoners here at Slowdays dot org, why not have on of our own!
I was lucky enough to be able to get the download link sent to me in the morning, just before I was leaving for university. I had just enough time to move the album onto my cell phone and I have been listening to it for a bit now.
So far, I think this is the album people (i.e., an educated guess one would have made based on the musical progression of the band, starting from demo recordings, over from Pablo Honey to the Bends) expected them to make after/instead of OK Computer. I mean this in a good way: It's heartfelt, light, airy and melodic, but also very immediate and tangible. The most interesting bit here, I think, is the fact that I don't think Radiohead could afford making an album like this (one that gleams and gloats in its apparent - I daresay experimental simplicity) unless they were, in all actuality, Radiohead!
Personally, I think this is also the album they should have made instead of Hail to the Thief
I was lucky enough to be able to get the download link sent to me in the morning, just before I was leaving for university. I had just enough time to move the album onto my cell phone and I have been listening to it for a bit now.
So far, I think this is the album people (i.e., an educated guess one would have made based on the musical progression of the band, starting from demo recordings, over from Pablo Honey to the Bends) expected them to make after/instead of OK Computer. I mean this in a good way: It's heartfelt, light, airy and melodic, but also very immediate and tangible. The most interesting bit here, I think, is the fact that I don't think Radiohead could afford making an album like this (one that gleams and gloats in its apparent - I daresay experimental simplicity) unless they were, in all actuality, Radiohead!
Personally, I think this is also the album they should have made instead of Hail to the Thief