In Rainbows

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest In Rainbows . Its very likely that even if you havent heard the contents of Radioheads seventh album, youll be aware of its existence. Released as a digital download by the band themselves before a CD release was even considered, In Rainbows was lauded for innovation before a note of music was heard. Luckily, the music matches the hype--it takes the best part of Radiohead's previous works and advances the formula even further. While the opener "15 Step"--all skittering drum patterns and dub-style bass--may hark back to the electronica of Kid A, the sound soon gives way to a more guitar-based sound. Whilst not as musically heavy as previous albums, the tunes are far more focused and passionate--"Bodysnatchers" is based around a hypnotic, distorted bass riff, while the beautiful string-drenched "Nude" is a true Radiohead classic. Lyrically, like Thom Yorkes solo album The Eraser, the lyrics are sketches of suburban paranoia, and the eerie sense of things no! t being quite right. This is especially true on the piano-based closer "Videotape", which poignantly details a man watching his lifes achievements in his final moments. In short, In Rainbows is another masterpiece from the Oxford quintet. --Thomas Allott Review The good news: With In Rainbows Radiohead may well have created their own Physical Graffiti. 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). 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. 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. How to sum up what is obviously a MAJOR work after just a morning's worth of plays 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. Beginning with some of that familiar Warp-inspired glitchiness, opener, "15 Step"'s children's voices and odd-meter clapping is astoundingly uplifting. "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. Already they've made you feel guilty for not donating more money for your download! Every song's nuances are exquisite, but problems do arise when you try to get inside the lyrics. Sometimes In Rainbows seems almost wilfully mixed to obscure Yorke's words. Like an early Can album, little dislocated phrases or repeated mantras jump out. 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. However themes do emerge: One being the surprising inclusion of several songs about 'relationships'. But while the opening line on 'House Of Cards', ('I don't want to be your friend, I just want to be your lover') may have you worrying that Thom's turning into Prince, this is still Radiohead we're listening to. "All I Need" is a string-drenched song of desire and dependency, but comes equipped with lines like: 'I'm the next step waiting in the wings. I'm an atom bomb trapped in your hot car', How utterly romantic. So, big sighs of relief all round. In Rainbows is the sound of a band who effortlessly straddle the avant garde/popular divide, and also sound like they actually enjoy being themselves again. They're back at the top of their game. Now go back and pay some more, all you 50 pence donators. This is a band that needs all the support we can give them. --Chris Jones This link will take you off in a new window Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. 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