Kid A - Radiohead > Reviews

Advantages: Beautiful, ambient, innovative...especially the innovative part. I love new stuff!
Disadvantages: Thom Yorke's vocals are tough to understand sometimes (and they aren't in the CD booklets either)

...stand by my conviction that Kid A is a masterpiece. The record has become the subject of hot debate; it seems that no one can take an impartial stance. Tensions are high as fans clash over the album's worth. One of my own very good friends said he didn't listen to it further than the first song. Personally, I was so impressed by Kid A that it's almost impossible for me to believe anyone would not like it, let alone sling the type of cruel criticisms ... Read review

Advantages: original, addictive, instrumental, and talented work.
Disadvantages: none

...to “How to disappear”, on Kid A and there is also “Motion picture soundtrack”. The old version of “How to disappear” and “Motion picture soundtrack” were both played with guitars and hardly had any background weird instruments, but they are still really good. You might be able to download the old version of the songs on the Internet if you are curious. It is an album that some people will hate and ... Read review

Advantages: A typical Radiohead album
Disadvantages: So depressing

Kid A was an album that recieved so many mixed reviews that I thought its about time I wrote my opinion and added my views. I must admit, they have produced some cracking tunes in the past if somewhat depressing. Creep must live forever as a masterpiece by Radiohead as wil the haunting street spirit. I was therefore hoping to find one Jem on this album. I havent yet. This studio album takes a less live aproach and focuses more on sampled ... Read review

Advantages: New directions.
Disadvantages: A few wrong turns.

Expectation was weighing quite heavy on the indiepop scales. Could Radiohead possibly build on their near faultless previous album 'OK Computer'. 'Kid A' is hard to define, its contours and directions are at times unwieldy and it lacks the tunes of its predecessors. Radiohead’s decision not to release any singles off the album seems entirely sensible. 'The National Anthem', for example, is as uneven as a rolling hedgehog but its momentum does ... Read review

Advantages: Well this all depends...
Disadvantages: ...on how much you wanted anothe Ok Computer!

...even here on Ciao. Sadly, Kid A has been received, considered, and judged, not as a new album, but as a follow-up to the monster hit before it. That’s why we read reviews, both here and in the music press, by frustrated, angry fans who expected another Ok Computer but didn’t get it. Imagine their disgust, when upon pressing play they found the band had taken an entirely new direction. That all the exciting, promising guitar work found ... Read review

Advantages: It's almost completely different to every other Radiohead release
Disadvantages: It's almost completely different to every other Radiohead release

Ah! Radiohead, forever changing, forever experimenting and defying lazy journalistic labels. When will they learn to settle down and remake all their hits again and again? Mainstream artists are not meant to be that way. Thank whoever you worship they don't, because change is a a very good thing. Like the change from tyranny to democracy and from carraiges to cars. This is defined as Progress, and Progress is not a dirty word. And so we present ... Read review

Advantages: Great Sounds, strong rythm, haunting lyrics
Disadvantages: very different

...anything against guitars), but with Kid A they have split into a new species of sounds. This new album uses strange new sounds with very strong rhythms and haunting lyrics the create something unlike anything else. My favorite song on the album is probably National Anthem. This has a very powerful bass line that becomes almost subconscious as you listen. The drums beat is above anything that most drummers knock out. You can just about make ... Read review

Advantages: It's very good.
Disadvantages: Small minded idiots may find it "impenetrable"

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: Brand New Directions.
Disadvantages: Lots Of Wrong Turns.

The expectation was enormous with the release of Radiohead's most recent album. Could Radiohead possibly build on their near faultless previous album 'OK Computer'. 'Kid A' remains hard to define, its contours and directions are at times unwieldy and it lacks the tunes of its predecessors. Radiohead’s decision not to release any singles off the album seems entirely sensible. 'The National Anthem', for example, is as uneven as a rolling hedgehog ... Read review

Advantages: again, pure quality
Disadvantages: the four year wait?

Kid A was something I had waited nearly four years for. I had read reviews which had slagged it off, I had read at least two by journalists who I respect which gave it 2 out of 10. I had heard repeatedly that the band had disappeared up their own.... basically I was ready to be disappointed when I first played it. I wasn't How wrong they were to doubt this remarkable album and this remarkable band. It was thought to be improbable to expect the band ... Read review

Advantages: helps you to pause and reflect
Disadvantages: not the one for a pre saturturday night out session

Your first impression of this album will leave you wondering wether radiohead are endanger of disapearing up thier own arses, and losing their abilty to connect with us mere mortals, but given time (and time is what is needed as this album demands your full attention) you can begin to fully appreciate the subtleties within this epic album. Here are a few of the albums high points; Track 1- "everything in its right place": warms you like the ... Read review

Advantages: Interesting, great sounds and vocals, surprisingly catchy
Disadvantages: May be hard work for some

...experimental work. I'd say Kid A contains pieces of music. It's not better of worse than either of theire two most popular albums - it's just different. One final thing - hidden underneath the tray where the CD sits, a second booklet can be found... ... Read review