new radiohead album!

[editor]

The site's now coming up with a bog tankard 'authentication required' log in box!

 

[rollinder]

might be too late to download it now if you didn't pre order

 

[Firky]

.....

 

[rollinder]

So I thought I'd join in with the conversation here and download the album and sling the 'head a few quid. But the buggering site is Kaput and has been for hours.

Anyone want to email the thing my way?

trying to send you the zip but gmails not letting me

 

[editor]

trying to send you the zip but gmails not letting me

Sorted now!
Good review in the Times

For what it’s worth, In Rainbows was sent to me at 6.30am. Three hours later, this insidious index of sonic surprises is stacking up in my mind, like planes waiting to land. The trick, I guess, is to give your fans what they didn’t know they wanted. Radiohead, old hands at this, have been doing it for over a decade now. With In Rainbows, they appear to have done it again.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co...rtainment/music/cd_reviews/article2621947.ece

Radiohead have certainly made this launch exciting - it's great seeing all the media outlets getting the album no quicker than Joe Public, and their quick reaction reviews make interesting reading.

 

[soulman]

Sorted now!
Good review in the Times

Radiohead have certainly made this launch exciting - it's great seeing all the media outlets getting the album no quicker than Joe Public, and their quick reaction reviews make interesting reading.

Excite me Ed..

 

[editor]

Excite me Ed..

If you don't like 'em, clear off this thread fella because I'm not going to waste time trying to sell it to you.

But you might want to take a look at some of the news media and see what they're saying about the new album/launch.

 

[soulman]

Too late, a big load of fail!!

 

[Ned Pointsman]

After a day with it, I've concluded that the song's themselves are brilliant in atomisation, but they've monged up the tracklisting, which is strange considering they spent months deciding on the order of Kid A. It remains third in the pantheon of Radiohead albums but that's more about the top two than IR itself.

Nude and Reckoner stay on the pile of 'stuff people wanted them to release but in retrospect they really shouldn't have done' see also - True Love Waits.

 

[Firky]

They have never done a proper recording of TLW (only ever played it live).

Baby Alligators in New York Sewers they did release and it is bombastic!

 

[cliche guevara]

if the website is still having problems, is it morally okay for me to burn copies for my mates, take a couple of quid off them and send the money in an envelope to thom yorke?

for the record i'm loving the album so far. It's well chilled and easy, but without losing any edge. radiohead continue to progress.

 

[TopCat]

i won't pay to support his fetish.

 

[rollinder]

That does look a bit like Thom
*has flashbacks to somebody on the old NME forums who was obsessed with posting photos of him and the idea of Thom&Jonny making a lovely couple*

 

[ovaltina]

I wish people would stop posting pictures of nazis - i get some funny looks in the office

 

[Crispy]

Ok, have listened to it more.
Definitely a grower - there's lots of interesting layers in there. Some of the song structure is a bit week in places. Good verses, and occasional good choruses, but very oftern there'll just be a "let's drop the chord by a tone and noodle about randomly for 4 bars, then bring the riff back in" - sounds very much like someone arsing about with reason/protools or whatever, taking ages to build up a lovely 16 bar sequence, then having trouble making it into a song. Hmmm. maybe that's a bit harsh. Some enjoyable tracks though, for sure.