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“Great album!”

★★★★★

written by christaunton34 on 20/06/2011

I was recently in the car listening to this album and suddenly realised how much I loved it! ‘All I Need’ is my favourite. I used to listen to it when I first met my girlfriend. Great 2 dance on beach to with mates and sum beers. Thom Yorke’s voice is great and here it sounds dreamy & brilliant. Get this album!

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“As we transfer from 2007 to 2008, what better way is...”

★★★★☆

written by LordBrambleberry on 29/12/2007

As we transfer from 2007 to 2008, what better way is there to do it than with a new Radiohead album! "In Rainbows" was a highly publisiced "Download-only" release and just came out on CD. I had to buy it.

So you pop the cd in and here the almost hip-hop beat of "15 Step." You will be shocked for a couple of seconds, then hear Thom Yorke's high voice lightly whining and breathe relief. Then on "Bodysnatchers" you hear a snappy, somewhat angry Thom Yorke vocal and a almost heavy background which is somewhat reminescent of "Hail to the Theif". "Nude" is a slow song, not very impressive, but "Weird Fishes" is one of the standout tracks from the album, and boasts a very melodic and inviting tune. Everything from there, "All I need" , "Faust Arp", "Jigsaw falling into place" are great Radiohead songs, "Faust Arp" another standout, being an excellent acoustic track. Then comes "Videotape", a soft, piano based melody that works amazingly as a closer.

As a whole, like all Radiohead albums, it's better as a whole than any individual songs. One complaint, why did it take so long?

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“This is a review on the download version of In...”

★★★★☆

written by Cognition on 31/10/2007

This is a review on the download version of In Rainbows, which is NOT complete. If you want the full album you should order the discbox from www.inrainbows.com. However, these do not ship until the 3rd of December.

Finally Radiohead have recorded the best of their new material and called it In Rainbows. For the most part, it would seem that the band have, thankfully, scrapped the whole experimental phase and returned to the older 'The Bends' sound - this is especially true about the second track, 'Bodysnatchers'. While I'm sure this may disappoint many Radiohead fans, particularly in the US where 'Kid A' is apparently a favourite (bizarre) the album is better for it.

I downloaded the album upon its release on the 10th of October and have been listening casually (being careful not to over play) since. The album sounded good when I ran it through the first time and has only gotten better since, if not more divided - by this I mean that some real favourites have started to stand above the rest.

Now, I've said that this is a good album and I stick by that, but I must express my disappointment about the final track, entitled Videotape. This is a song that has so much potential - earlier versions were simple, recorded with only a piano, and I feel that the track worked best like this. When it came to recording the song, however, it seems that Radiohead just couldn't resist the temptation to cut it up, change it (so it's no longer as genius piece of music) and add some dodgy sounding, badly timed electric stuff over the top. Now, as opposed being a clever, lyrically moving piece, this song sounds more like your weird aunty's funky funeral march. This completely takes away the point of the song and, although I'm giving it chance to grow on me, I can't help but feel that the album version is such a let down.

However, I have NO doubt that this is Radiohead's best work since OK Computer of 1997 - and let us not forget that this is only the half of it - there are 8 more tracks included on a bonus CD which should be released on the 3rd December along with the discbox (however, I'm not sure if these songs are available for download).

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Cognition's Response to Cognition's Review

Written on: 09/12/2007

Just got the Discbox - came today.<br/><br/>It's good to have it all on CD, I don't plan to play the vinyls as I can't and wouldn't want to wear them anyway.<br/><br/>Disc 2 has some good tracks on it - I like all of them, some more than others though.<br/><br/>As for the 'MK 1' and 'MK 2' - they're cut up sections of Videotape (MK 1) and, I think, Nude (MK 2) - the latter is harder to tell.<br/><br/>The second disc completes the album, as I felt the first one alone lacked a feeling of completion if you know what I mean.<br/><br/>Apparently the actual CD album should be coming out in 2008 for those who don't want to buy the discbox.<br/><br/>However, I urge people to spend the full £40 and get it all - 2 x 12'' vinyls, artwork, lyric booklet and the 2 CD's. It also comes in a really nice cover.<br/><br/>Great stuff - a highlight of the year.

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“It will surely go down in music history. A mysterious...”

★★★★☆

written by mr underhill on 19/10/2007

It will surely go down in music history. A mysterious website appears online announcing simply "Radiohead have made a record. So far, it's only available from this website." No official logos, no explanation, no adverts, nothing. To call this low key would be an understatement. The first instinct of anyone remotely familiar with the thousands of unofficial fan sites buzzing around the net nowadays would pass it off as nothing more than a rather unconvincing hoax. But remarkably it was no such thing. Eschewing all commercial conventions, not to mention business sensibilities, arguably the biggest and most creative rock bands of the last decade spring their new album on the world with almost no warning, no cover art and no price tag. You can accuse them of high-minded 'it's all about the music man' pretensions, but it certainly takes some gall to introduce an honesty policy of 'pay what you like' for one of the most eagerly awaited albums in years. Then again in retrospect, with their track record of defying expectations, the whole thing was so typically Radiohead. Perhaps unsurprisingly, In Rainbows closely resembles its most recent predecessors, 2003s underrated Hail to the Thief, and Thom Yorke's minimal solo album, The Eraser, released last year. Accordingly it's just as intriguing, if only marginally easier to accept.
In Rainbows starts in gloriously spontaneous fashion. With kinetic percussion, electronic beats and funky bass riffs, opener "15 Step" sounds like a jamming session using kitchen utensils. It instantly recalls former off-beat high-tempo highlight tracks such as Hail to the Thief's "Backdrifts", Kid A's "Ideoteque" or Ok Computer's "Paranoid Android". There's a brief and welcome return to their rock roots with "Bodysnatchers", followed by the gorgeously mournful orchestral melodies of "Nude", completing the album's standout, most instantly accessible, musical triptych. Of course it's typical Radiohead in that it's a grower. Gradually the intensifying guitar riffs for wistful tracks like "Weird Fishes" (a personal favourite) and "Jigsaw Falling into Place" become ever more pleasing and defined. Unlike Hail to the Thief which was almost unceasingly bleak and intense, In Rainbows is overall more soulful, almost playful, in tone. But almost exactly like its predecessor, progressing through the album we must journey through more awkward terrain, with sparse electro-acoustic tracks like "All I Need" and "Faust Arp" sounding like leftovers from last year's The Eraser, complete with the minimal beats and haunting falsetto vocals. Yet, while these are almost instantly forgettable first time round, on repeated listenings the hidden complexities of these subtle tracks might place them alongside those mellow classics like Amnesiac's "Knives Out". Again harking back to former albums, In Rainbows finishes introspectively, the final track "Videotape" almost reaching the devastatingly emotional heights of Kid A's showstopper "Motion Picture Soundtrack" with its simple, heart-breaking lulling piano and tentative vocals.
Yet for all its many strengths, In Rainbows can best be described as a 'satisfying' Radiohead offering. It's not revolutionarily progressive like OK Computer or refreshingly subversive like Kid A or Amnesiac. Nor is it jam-packed with memorable anthems like The Bends. Despite the title, In Rainbows could possibly be the least 'colourful' of Radiohead's albums. Not so much built up of contrasts, a few outstanding tracks aside, In Rainbows is mostly shades of grey. It will please loyal fans, but it won't reconvert those all-out-rock lovers and it won't satisfy those hardcore experimentalists hoping to witness the next step in Radioheads evolution. Of course this is only technically the first draft, but I wonder if it weren't for the mystery surrounding its early online release, this short, modest offering might not have slipped by almost unnoticed.

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Cognition's Response to mr underhill's Review

Written on: 31/10/2007

I agree with what you say about '15 Step', but not 'All I Need'.
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<br/>The latter is one of the best tracks on the album - it's dark in a way that only Radiohead can do.

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