| Author | Message | ||
     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1098 Registered: 10-2008 |
sort of. http://pitchfork.com/news/41561-radiohea d-to-release-new-album-this-saturday/ | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1103 Registered: 10-2008 |
and just to confound everybody the download has been released today, which is one day earlier than promised. on first listen this is gonna piss a lot of people off because it sounds less even less of a "rock" album than kid a did. first impressions are an album of little or no guitars, glitchy beats, and thom yorkes vocal very prominent in the mix. i'll need to listen to this at least 3 or 4 times more before getting any kind of handle on it. so far it sounds like a tom yorke solo record - not a bad thing! one of the early reviews contains this telling snippet "If Radiohead are still a rock band, then no one has told them." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music /cdreviews/8333063/Radiohead-King-of-Lim bs-album-review.html | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1105 Registered: 10-2008 |
another early review - http://thequietus.com/articles/05721-rad iohead-king-of-limbs-review. another encouraging line to savour "King of Limbs is Radiohead moving further into leftfield, away from the mainstream they once courted, a mainstream that will no doubt damn this album as pretentious and self-indulgent, with all the confused venom of a lover spurned" second listen now. i'm not much more enlightened than i was after the first, this will take many more listens to reveal itself. perhaps picking up that the drummer is on top form here, pretty jazzy at times. i reckon the last flying lotus album was on heavy rotation while making this album. favourite track so far is "feral" which is the most kid a-ish track but not a slavish imitation. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1106 Registered: 10-2008 |
you can stream it here http://prettymuchamazing.com/reviews/alb umreviews/thekingoflimbs#more-26388 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3807 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for the link Kevin. Listening to it now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3809 Registered: 05-2005 |
On first listen I like it, but not so much I'm going to pay £33 for the "Newspaper Album" edition. |