![]() ![]() Shorn of context and usually sung in a slurred delivery that’s become more pronounced, this can have a deeply (and one suspects deliberately) disturbing effect. Like an early Can album, little dislocated phrases or repeated mantras jump out. Sometimes In Rainbows seems almost wilfully mixed to obscure Yorke’s words. Already they've made you feel guilty for not donating more money for your download…Įvery song’s nuances are exquisite, but problems do arise when you try to get inside the lyrics. "Bodysnatchers" is the kind of crunchy guitar rock that we’d all given up hope that they’d ever record again and "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" takes Johnny Greenwood’s orchestral piece and turns it into a chiming thing of post-rock wonder. Beginning with some of that familiar Warp-inspired glitchiness, opener, "15 Step"'s children’s voices and odd-meter clapping is astoundingly uplifting. In Rainbows proves, once and for all that Radiohead still have the will and desire to not just weird us all out, but to make achingly, desperately beautiful music. How to sum up what is obviously a MAJOR work after just a morning's worth of plays? Their new marketing and distribution model may be making a mockery of conventional business models, but it’s also making a mockery of the critic's job too. Of course it's ironic that the band has finally released what to many fans will be the true heir to OK Computer as what is ostensibly a freebie. Drawn from over 10 years of sketches, outtakes and live renditions that finally get nailed, it's a veritable summation of everything you love about them – from rhythmically challenging jazz funk prog to droning repetitive exhumations of the socio-political conscience (rock 'n' roll…phew). The good news: With In Rainbows Radiohead may well have created their own Physical Graffiti. ![]()
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