It’s the same old story, you wait ages for a bus and then two come along at once. The Radiohead story in recent times has been eerily similar to this because after their three year hiatus after OK Computer, Radiohead will have released two albums in the space of 10 months come June 4TH of this year. I’ve already previewed this album from the live tracks that I have heard, but it was based on rumours and scraps of songs. Now I have the hard evidence to draw from and believe me when I say there is nothing quite like it.

It begins with what sounds like rattling tin cans on the back of the car of newly-weds, Pact Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box sounds like the child of Idioteque’s strange drums and discordant vocals and the keyboards of Kid A’s opener, Everything In It’s Right Place. The music is mixed with Thom Yorke’s wonderful ability to take everyday phrases and somehow twist them as he tells us "I’m a reasonable man / Get off my case".

Pulk / Pull Revolving Doors brings will bring back the cries of Aphex Twin aping. This track sounds like it could have been on Kid A, especially with vocals very similar to that of the title track itself. This is probably the most ambitious song the band have done to date and I would love to hear a dance remix made of it. The lyrics seem to be about the function of doors, possibly inspired by the rationality of Ronseal ads…or possibly not.

I might Be Wrong also has guitars; it’s a bit like The National Anthem, except a little more frantic. The cut-and-paste sound of the drums really makes the track sound very dark and strange. It’s reminds me of sort of faster version of My Iron Lung for some reason too. Thom also sheds light on the accusations that the band are depressing by admitting "I used to think / There is no future left at all". I would love this to be a single, just to see how the consumers would deal with something as complex as this. The outro is also a welcome addition.

Morning Bell Amnesiac will create much debate in music circles. Is it better than the original version? Why did they do two versions at all? Does it show a lack of invention? In order I have to say "yes", "because they sound very different" and "no". The fact that they could turn the disjointedness of the original into this MPS sound-a-like shows real invention. It almost has an easy-listening vibe to it.

"Coming up tonight on Jazz Club, we have Oxford’s finest indie-jazzaphonic rock band, The Radioheadz with a little number they’ve titled Life in A Glass House…nice". This is a cool, jazzy little ditty and it is a quite fantastic end to the album. It doesn’t have the beauty of Street Spirit (Fade Out) or the purity of Motion Picture Soundtrack. I first became aware of this track when the NME followed the band in Italy on the OK Computer tour. It makes a brief appearance in the tour film Meeting People Is Easy. Humphrey Lyttleton (waddayamean you don’t know who he is?) does the trumpet on this track. The lyrics are quite strange too: "Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat
/ Well of course I'd like to stay and chew the fat". Whether this is a reference to Greg Hempel, Glasgow University Rector is highly debatable. But if this song was to appear on a crappy BBC 1930s costume drama, it wouldn’t seem out of place, except for the fact that it would be by far the best thing on the show.