Radiohead - In Rainbows

Hi! I'm Radiohead!

In 2005, I was in a bad place. My last album wasn't very good, and the one before it was kinda "meh", and I knew it! But, I still released it. Why? Because I've got little Radiohead's running around to feed. But in 2005, I didn't know what to do. I knew that my best work was behind me (my "Kid A"), and it was too easy to tread upon the same electronic crap I'd been doing for the past few years. I mean, even Mark E. Smith knew that the techno stuff had to go at some point. So I decided that I needed more guitars. But after deciding that, I had the first song be a drum thing with some light fingerpickin' goodness just to show "Hey, who says you can't teach an old Radiohead new tricks?". I corrected myself and said "Well, we need a ROCKER!" so there's that song. Then I said "Man, I've been paying this song "Nude" since 1997, I might as well record it", so I did. And bam! It's there. But honestly, I feel the finest work comes with tracks 4-8. I mean, it's on there that I create the mood of the album and introduce cool sounds all up in the joint with this strangely weird atmosphere of it feeling warm but distant, LIKE A RAINBOW IN THE DARK! LOLZZZZZ.

I mean, I sing real good on those numbers and my drumming is all like "doom-dippity=bloosh!" with actual guitar in this joint! I also did some cool sounding backing vocals in there that are all like "oooooh yeaaaeaahh" and some lyrics that sound like "my mah ne hi man, house of cards, eergaahhhhhh oooo sspllosss ka". After that 4 song tour de forks, there's only 2 left. Some little rockin' ditty that's all tight and blows up in your face like a puffer fish. When I called it an end this time, I just took some piano chords and simple drum beat and my singing voice and finished the song. And I think it's quite nice. Subdued? Yessirs. But that's the idea of the joint.

So, as a growing, balding Radiohead, I've tried hard to give you a product that costs nothing and I have to say, is my second best musical attempt.

OVERALL RATING - Yeah, we know.
KEY TRACKS - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, All I Need, Faust Arp