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How can you follow up an album like OK Computer, widely applauded as one of the greatest rock albums of all time? For a long time, Radiohead didn't know. The good part of three years was spent fretting over their future, with tensions running so high that the band almost split up several times. Thom Yorke had major writer’s block, and the rest of the band weren't much better for ideas. Eventually, they gathered themselves up, sorted themselves out, and made this: Kid A. And was it worth the wait? I honestly have to say, yes.
Kid A sees an almost total departure from Radiohead’s guitar-based past. But there are guitars there, just not as we know them: Treefingers, for example, is made out of one guitar sample, which was messed around with and cut up by Jonny Greenwood.
It starts brilliantly, with the ambient-style electric piano loop of Everything in it’s Right Place. Next comes Kid A, written by Jonny Greenwood, which is the most beautiful and strangest thing on the album. But there's lots more weird greatness to follow: the punk bassline and freakish jazz of The National Anthem, and the undescribable guitars on In Limbo.
Although every track on the album is good, my favourite has to be Idioteque. Thom Yorke calls it “disco”. This is, predictably, just Thom talking yet more balls. It’s all based on a simple synth track by Jonny, with a scary beat and Thom’s haunting vocals put over it. While the album version is stunning, the live version is just something else.
Kid A is a bold album from a band who are clearly determined to do things differently. With boring Radiohead imitations like Muse and Coldplay available ten-a-penny, thank God that there’s still a band prepared to push rock music to its limits.
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Radiohead may well be the most courageous band in Britain. Their second album, The Bends, ... more
was a success both critically and commercially, and they followed it up with an album of epic prog-rock, OK Computer, that would have destined a lesser band to co...
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Radiohead may well be the most courageous band in Britain. Their second album, The Bends, ... more
was a success both critically and commercially, and they followed it up with an album of epic prog-rock, OK Computer, that would have destined a lesser band to co...
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