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The official Radiohead thread
Topic Started: Feb 14 2011, 10:27 AM (471 Views)
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Radiohead just announced their new album, The King of Limbs. We don’t know the tracklist yet, but the album will be released on February 19th. Yep, 5 days from now.

There are two options:

Newspaper Album

Two clear 10″ vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve.
A compact disc.
Many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together.
The Newspaper Album comes with a digital download that is compatible with all good digital media players.
The Newspaper Album will be shipped on Monday 9th May 2011 you can, however, enjoy the download on Saturday 19th February 2011.
Shipping is included in the prices shown.
One lucky owner of the digital version of The King Of Limbs, purchased from this website, will receive a signed 2 track 12″ vinyl.
Digital Only

MP3 version is a 320K constant bit rate file.
WAV version is a full CD quality uncompressed digital audio file.
One lucky owner of the digital version of The King Of Limbs, purchased from this website, will receive a signed 2 track 12″ vinyl.

preorder through http://www.thekingoflimbs.com/DIEUR.htm
Edited by Pera, Feb 14 2011, 10:29 AM.
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Woah! Gotta hand it to them, they're fantastic at pulling these sudden album stunts!
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Tracklisting

1.Fog (Jamie xx Remix) Nosaj Thing Drift (Remixed)
2.Tripped Up Ramadanman Re-Edit Shortstuff Mickey Pearce
3. Sun Days Macc & dgoHn
4. Keep Time Shed
5. Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903: Fantasia Christophe Rousset Bach: Harpsichord Works
6. SP Morgan Zarate
7. Chazm Julio Bashmore
8. Seamonkey (Untold Remix) Moderat
9. Stereo Freeze Untold
10. 7c 1020 Macc & dgoHn
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Feb 14 2011, 10:32 AM
Woah! Gotta hand it to them, they're fantastic at pulling these sudden album stunts!
True, but I'm so not paying 36 gbp for an album! :lol2:
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Typically pretentious titles.

When the first track is a remix, that doesn't exactly inspire.
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I stopped being interested in them before the Kid A CD finished playing.
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:chuckle:

It's a shame they had to go down the arty/pretentious/tuneless route as much as they did. They were such an incredible band. I know lots of people still love them, but I find it hard to summon the interest anymore too.
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oh but In Rainbows is much closer to their original sound!
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Feb 14 2011, 11:18 AM
oh but In Rainbows is much closer to their original sound!
True! I did actually enjoy a lot on that album. It had more "proper songs" than usual for them!
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Feb 14 2011, 10:33 AM
1.Fog (Jamie xx Remix) Nosaj Thing Drift (Remixed)
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OMG.. GREAT NEWS
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First review from The Guardian

Radiohead – The King of Limbs: First review

We've only heard it once, but Radiohead's The King of Limbs hardly sounds like a band breaking new ground

Radiohead's release schedule is not, you imagine, geared towards helping music critics. Minimal warnings, last-minute changes of plan and confusing announcements posted on Twitter in Japanese – does Thom Yorke not realise we have tight deadlines? The end result is a mad-rush by critics, bloggers and Tweet-freaks to be first to post their opinion on The King of Limbs' eight tracks. Trouble is, Radiohead don't make music designed for a hurried listen. A couple more plays down the line and the opinions you read here may be subject to change.

The King of Limbs begins in a manner that will no doubt make both Radiohead fans and critics smile – a looped piano riff reminiscent of Philip Glass is interrupted by crackly interference before disjointed rhythms and bleeps cascade over it. It's an abstract, awkward introduction of the sort that has become so synonymous with the Oxford band that Vice magazine felt able to send them up this week with a spoof "first review" (sample line: "P£T£R P£PP£R is Thom Yorke's deeply personal reaction to the events of the banking crisis, while Johnny Greenwood plays a timpani with a zither").

Still, bands don't become stadium-sized cult heroes if they're nothing more than avant-garde soundscapers. And 30 seconds into Bloom, the track shuffles itself around and falls into place, haphazard noises settling down into a repetitive drum march as Thom Yorke announces himself.

There is much here that will please the 'Head faithful, who willl delight in the claustrophobic likes of Morning Mr Magpie and Little By Little. But you don't have to be a diehard fan to see the worth in Codex, a beautiful melody brought into focus by the band's decision to dispense of the usual trimmings in favour of piano and ghostlike effects. Closing track Separator – propelled by wandering bass and a bright guitar figure – ensures the album closes far more strongly than it opens.

These songs occupy an emotional terrain that Radiohead have mapped out as their own and – to their credit – others have failed to mimick. What's disappointing, however, is that the band – so often held up as musical mavericks operating in the mainstream – have failed to come up with anything that might surprise us this time. Early albums such as The Bends, OK Computer and Kid A carved out a radical new direction for the band. Since then they've settled into a sound – abstract lyrics, jittery rhythms, echoes of leftfield electronica – meaning that this teeters on the brink of self-parody.

Their last album, 2007's In Rainbows, was perhaps the best of Radiohead's later releases, incorporating a more human (not to mention melodic) touch. Any hints that some light and shade was beginning to appear in the Radiohead canon have been largely snuffed out here, which is disappointing. Yes, you can still marvel that one of the world's biggest bands are releasing music totally lacking in commercial concerns. And yes, they're still leading the pack when it comes to releasing music in an exciting, innovative way. But whereas their business model is unusual, there's a nagging feeling that The King of Limbs is more like business as usual.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/18/radiohead-king-limbs-first-review
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To sum up the above: "same old tuneless shite".
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:lol2:

another masterpiece :wub:
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Radiohead to release 'Limbs' follow-up?

Radiohead may release another album soon, fans have speculated.

The band released their eighth studio album The King Of Limbs as a digital download at the weekend, but fans have already highlighted a number of factors that point to another release soon, reports NME.

Points in question include the last track of the album being titled 'Separator', possibly eluding to the idea that a companion album is on the way - with the track acting as a 'separator' between the the two LPs.

Another theory points towards orders for the album appearing as 'TKOL1', suggesting that this hints at a release of 'TKOL2' in the near future.

Radiohead released The King Of Limbs a day early last week.

The album is currently available as a download and is due out in stores March 28.
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Not impressed at all! If they're going to continue going this route, just disband already! There's enough crap out there as it is.
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Why? They're still making great music.
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New song "Burn the Witch". Glad to hear them doing proper melodies again. Cracking video too!

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