THE KING OF LIMBS

Oh, this dance is fantastic, I'm gonna go and get me a bottle of those pills right now.
New Radiohead album - The King Of Limbs - I'll just go listen to it, back in a sec.

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Alright, I listened to it.

Well, I hope it's the kind of album that grows on you. It begins with "Bloom" after all. "Bloom" reminds me of trains, not flowers. Okay, maybe it's a journey. To where, I don't know. "Morning Mr Magpie" is pretty much the same song a bit more hasty. You listen to 20 seconds of either of these songs and you've got the idea, nothing changes after that. Buttons and switches, chirps and twitches. And Thom's voice hovering above the mess like a paralytic angel who doesn't quite know what side is up.

I don't mean to be mean, but it does sound like this album, much like In Rainbows, is made out of fillers. Songs that used to fill proper albums , like "Treefingers" or even "Backdrifts"; they all sound like "Backdrifts, don't they? Cause they're just toying with buttons now, aren't they? They've proved their point, they've done "Paranoid Android" (music, real music), done "Street Spirit", done "Idioteque" (buttons, but with balls), done "Just", done them all. And now they're done. They can put Thom's voice over anything, boiling soup, it doesn't matter: it's instant Radiohead and so instant success. Just add water. It's funny, but all the bands copying Radiohead that have mushroomed around sound better than Radiohead now.

This album could have easily been done by Thom and Jonny alone. I don't really hear the others, there are no real drums anywhere and what bass there is could have been done by Jonny with one hand behind his back.

So here's "Feral", the entire album (with a few exceptions that sound like "Treefingers" with lyrics)

Radiohead - Feral