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| Artist: Radiohead
Label: XL
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  119 reviews
Sales Rank: 264
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.2
UPC: 634904032425
EAN: 0634904032425
ASIN: B000YIXBVI
Release Date: December 31, 2007
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 Consistently excellent. March 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
By this point, the hype and the publicity has eclipsed most people's perception of In Rainbows. For the rest of Radiohead's career and probably afterwards, it's going to be remembered not as an album, but as a publicity stunt and possibly a portent of things to come. So let's ignore the internet chicanery for a minute and take a look at what really matters here - the music.
Radiohead's first album since 2003 might seem comparitively slight; at only ten songs and a little over forty minutes, it is not anything as grandly conceptual as OK Computer or as out-there as Kid A. Nor is it in any real sense, a step forward. From one perspective there is nothing on In Rainbows that we haven't heard before, as in many ways it is an album that's a composite of everything Radiohead has achieved up to this point.
The overall mood is relaxed - something unprecedented when it comes to Radiohead albums, but a satisfaction at being rid of their label and mostly happy family men seems to have brought out the best in the band. The album is stripped back, but not restrained. Much like on Kid A, each song only has the instrumentation it requires, and the band is expanding out of their own comfort zones. Even Yorke's lyrics and delivery are warmer and more absorbing when compared to his disquieting character performances on Hail To The Thief.
The songs themselves are uniformly stellar. Even something like 'Faust Arp' which seems like a sketch has in fact been fleshed out, its subtle strings and tricksy timing an alluring mid-point diversion. 'Nude' has been hanging around since the OK Computer days, only now finally appearing on an album, accentuated by the bubbling string section and stripped production of the album.
Best of all is 'Jigsaw Falling Into Place,' a spiralling, swirling rush of arpeggios with Yorke ranting over the top about his experience of a night out. Its chiming coda is the main hairs-stand-on-end moment for the album. The album as a whole, due to a lack of invention or really pushing in any new direction, isn't really on the same level as the holy triad that started with The Bends and ended with Kid A. But it doesn't really need it. In Rainbows is an album to be proud of, an album to treasure, and above all, an album to enjoy.
Almost superb March 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is yet another fantastic Radiohead album with moments of absolute magic. It's a departure from the various past styles to a fairly whimsical floaty album, which I'm a huge fan of!
My only issue with the album is that some of the songs seem to cut short. Songs build to a peak, a state of pure emotion, possibly genius...and then they abruptly end. Some of these beautiful sections could be dwelled upon a little longer in order to appreciate and bask in the glory of the wonderful sound they've produced.
Still an excellent album!
 priceless album March 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Thom Yorke described In Rainbows as their 'Revolver'. It's their most accessible album for many years, and possibly their most technically accomplished as well. Filled with beautiful songs, melodies and sentiments it covers the full spectrum of emotion, apparently effortlessly. Ten years from now it will be hailed as a classic and definitive album.
superb March 12, 2008
philaxeman-look around you and you will find fans that find this album
not only good,but bloody fantastic.You're in a minority mate.I agree with
you on the last three albums which are patchy.This one though as far as i'm concerned is well up there with some sublime quality writing.
 It Buzzes Like A Fridge March 9, 2008
7 out of 41 found this review helpful
How much longer are Radiohead going to keep on beating a dead horse?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that what the fans really want is another GOOD album. Yes, that's one where the rest of the band are involved and not just Thom Yorke dicking around with samples, drum loops and various other electronic farts and whistles.
I've never seen Radiohead live and after The Bends and OK Computer it was top of my wishlist to do so, but after three awful albums in a row and now this latest effort which sounds like the offspring of a BBC sound effects album and a drum machine, I no longer have any desire to see Thom Yorke running around on stage twisting knobs and pushing buttons while the rest of the band stand around, looking bored, wondering what became of the ground-breaking band they used to be in.
I can't understand the 5 star reviews on here. I can only assume some Radiohead fans are so stubborn that they will even look for meaning in drivel like this. I know, I used to be one of them. I tried and tried to find anything good about Kid A, but it just isn't there to find. Amnesiac was even worse. Hail to the Thief had a few decent songs - the ones where the band were allowed out of their cupboard and Yorke put his 1985 Casio organ away. In Rainbows is dull, uninspired and a thoroughly boring album. You wait for the songs to come to life and they never do. This one was dead on arrival.
I downloaded this album for free and still feel cheated.
PLEASE, Thom, let the rest of the band play.
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