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[goldsoundz]

I listened to it. It's alright.

Disclaimer: Kid A and Hail to the Thief are my favorite albums

Love you bro. HttT gets shit on way too often. Yeah, about half of the album is shite, but the other is some of the best work they've ever done.

Trying to stay on track here with AMSP. So happy to be talking about some new Radiohead with you boys. Can't pull myself away from Daydreaming. This album is a complete downer from beginning to end, and I love it.

 

[Fancy Clown]

Identikit is this albums Idioteque

 

[ZeroRay]

P. good

Standouts

Burn The Witch
Daydreamers
Desert Island Disk
Identikit
Tinker Tailor...

The two legendary tracks, Present Tense and True Love Waits had too much weight behind them for me to give them a fully honest assessment first time through. Did like the latter more the second listen however; those keyboards are protecting Thom's heart from reaching us ;_;

Gonna listen a few dozen more times to place it in the RANKINGS

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Guys, this album is so good. I can't believe the leap from King Of Limbs to this.

I'm just so happy about this.

 

[Doctor Ironic]

The King of Limbs was great.

 

[Deeku]

why can't you get the 24-bit WAV with the special edition

why, Thom, why

I'm honestly a little annoyed by this too but ehhh. Odd decision for sure.

 

[Fancy Clown]

The King of Limbs was great.

I do like King of Limbs quite a bit but honestly this shits on it imo

 

[Bronx-Man]

Wait, I just remembered I still have Tidal! Time to end this wait.

 

[goldsoundz]

Just turned off the TV, lights, and everything else besides the computer with my best headphones hooked up. Ending this weekend right.

 

[Poimandres]

Is it just me or Burn the Witch sounds like a Muse song?

People were saying it sounds like a Coldplay song and... honestly... I can hear it (just a little).

I'm loving A Moon Shaped Poon.

 

[Fancy Clown]

People were saying it sounds like a Coldplay song and... honestly... I can hear it (just a little).

lol yeah one of my buddies said "I thought it was a Coldplay song at first but then it got good"

 

[Kodaman]

Ahhhhhhh shit.. Don't know how to feel about Present Tense :/

 

[BigJonsson]

Not on spotify in Canada yet? Oh come on

 

[goldsoundz]

Not on spotify in Canada yet? Oh come on

Not on Spotify anywhere. Buy it. Support our overlords: Radiohead!

 

[Sadsic]

Identikit and Ful Stop to me are really really good... maybe like top 15 tracks of all time for Radiohead for me

album as a whole is really good, probably my favorite album by them since Hail to the Thief

 

[Bronx-Man]

Decks Dark
Ful Stop
Glass Eyes
The Numbers

 

[Rushersauce]

WTH?

Pablo Honey has other great tracks like Blowout, You, Thinking about you and Prove Yourself.

 

[JehutyRunner]

Look at the OP and add In Limbo, Give Up the Ghost, and A Wolf at the Door. Shame on OP for omitting them. It's pretty much all great except for Fitter Happier, which isn't even a song. Get to it!

I would have added in at least In Limbo and A Wolf at the Door were it not for the fact that I restricted myself on up to at least five songs per album and picked songs I think were a lot more well known than others. Otherwise, there's some songs missing that absolutely would have made that list like In Limbo, The Tourist, Kid A, We Suck Young Blood, All I Need etc.

Out of all the songs I picked, the one that resembles my taste most is Amnesiac as all of those are the five songs I love most from that album.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

ful stop and identikit did get nerfed. I want that live oomph so bad.


it's okay tho I'm sure the live studio versions will be out at some point to make me appreciate it more

 

[JoJoShabadoo]

I'm really digging this album. Unlike King of Limbs, I feel like I'm reliving those first special listens of In Rainbows in my apartment.

As someone mentioned earlier however, one thing this album could have a bit more of is peaks/crescendos. I also personally feel like it doesn't flow as a whole, but rather feels more like a playlist of different Radiohead songs. Which isn't a bad thing for the music itself, as each song has something to appreciate, but maybe (at least not yet) I don't feel that the album is tied together.

 

[goldsoundz]

I would have added in at least In Limbo and A Wolf at the Door were it not for the fact that I restricted myself on up to at least five songs per album and picked songs I think were a lot more well known than others. Otherwise, there's some songs missing that absolutely would have made that list like In Limbo, The Tourist, Kid A, We Suck Young Blood, All I Need etc.

Out of all the songs I picked, the one that resembles my taste most is Amnesiac as all of those are the five songs I love most from that album.

You done good on the OP, friend.

Just listened from beginning to end with no distractions. I am shook. This is so raw. Thom putting it all out there.

 

[mariachi507]

9.5 - like witnessing the stillborn birth of a child while simultaneously having the opportunity to see her play in the afterlife, but only on a 50" TV.

Jesus, lol!

 

[Psychoward]

I feel like I'm the only one a bit disappointed by this, but I probably just need to give more lessons. It's solid but just doesn't grab me like their other records. A bit too similar throughout. But I love TKOL so eh

 

[CoffeeJanitor]

I'm really digging this album. Unlike King of Limbs, I feel like I'm reliving those first special listens of In Rainbows in my apartment.

As someone mentioned earlier however, one thing this album could have a bit more of is peaks/crescendos. I also personally feel like it doesn't flow as a whole, but rather feels more like a playlist of different Radiohead songs. Which isn't a bad thing for the music itself, as each song has something to appreciate, but maybe (at least not yet) I don't feel that the album is tied together.

really feel like this is part of the ambient influence

Album really just flows, is restrained

 

[Poimandres]

I feel like I'm the only one a bit disappointed by this, but I probably just need to give more lessons. It's solid but just doesn't grab me like their other records. A bit too similar throughout. But I love TKOL so eh

I'd say it's a headphone record where you can really appreciate the subtlety. Hope it grows on you man!

 

[hughesta]

this album is beyond incredible.

 

[goldsoundz]

I'd say it's a headphone record where you can really appreciate the subtlety. Hope it grows on you man!

Truth. This album hits 100x as hard with headphones and no distractions. I'm not one to sit in a dark room and soak in an album, but this one benefits from your full attention.

I've got to wind down and hit the sack. Fuck work! Vacation in 4 weeks.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

this album is beyond incredible.

I can confirm this.

 

[BigJonsson]

Not on Spotify anywhere. Buy it. Support our overlords: Radiohead!

Huh, wasn't it supposed to be on there today?

Edit - I guess not, lame

 

[Citizen_Insane]

I'd say it's a headphone record where you can really appreciate the subtlety. Hope it grows on you man!

Yeah, I noticed this while driving to it. There's so many subtle layers to it, and you really need headphones to get the full effect.

 

[robotrock]

How did they do this?

 

[goldsoundz]

How did they do this?

They always do it! King of Limbs was just too short.

I want to stay up all night and listen to this.

 

[Mutagenic]

I feel like I'm the only one a bit disappointed by this, but I probably just need to give more lessons. It's solid but just doesn't grab me like their other records. A bit too similar throughout. But I love TKOL so eh

I'm the same way.

 

[Pillville]

Someone get The Smashing Pumpkins on the phone. Let them know a different album deserves the title "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"

 

[jacobs34]

This is lovely.

 

[bomma_man]

So far Numbers, Glass Eyes and Tinker are my favorites. Lots of listening left to do though.

Main negative is that I think Thom's lyrics keep getting worse over time. Some pretty bad lines on here. :/

This is where I'm at too. The teenaged earnestnest of true love waits is almost a breath of fresh air compared to the first year of uni impressionistic drudgery elsewhere. But, looking back, I'm not sure he was ever much of lyricist. Thankfully the music's amazing!

 

[megalowho]

Thom singing "All the good times" in Ful Stop is fucking awesome. Dude sounds transported.

 

[Anastasia]

I can't believe how good the album turned out. I have to listen to it more, but honestly I would put it above everything except OK Computer. Which is very high praise. Hard for me to pick out a favorite track, but I'm leaning toward Ful Stop. I love the energy and how it builds up. I'm sure others have already mentioned this, but I think this album should appeal to most Radiohead fans. There's something for everyone here.

Also ordered the special edition.

 

[Released]

The only line that's jumped out to me as being bad is Identikit's "broken hearts / make it rain"

I've forgiven cheesy lyrics before though (see: Sail to the Moon)

 

[mariachi507]

I've got a final in the morning and all I wanna do is listen to Radiohead.

This album is much more mellow than I thought it would be. That's not a bad thing at all though. I miss live Identikit, but that solo is amazing. I'm looking forward to taking this album in for the next week's/month's/year's.

 

[Psychoward]

I'd say it's a headphone record where you can really appreciate the subtlety. Hope it grows on you man!

Yeah I listened to it with headphones, I mean like I said it's solid and definitely amazingly produced but those are the highest praises I can throw it at so far.

 

[DataStream]

Yeah, I noticed this while driving to it. There's so many subtle layers to it, and you really need headphones to get the full effect.

Yeah I have a pretty damn great system and typically prefer it to my (also very nice) headphones for listening, but the details on this are so fucking deep on headphones. Listened to it on the way back from Palo Alto on Caltrain and was in another universe.

This is definitely top tier Radiohead. I expected them to do something amazing after seeing TKOL on tour and hearing how jazzy and loose they were getting with that material. You can hear them building off the studio experiments with layering from TKOL but mixing it with the live band and adding a string section. Ful Stop and Identikit lose some bite compared to their live versions, but make up for it in swirling cosmic psychedelia.

Expectations surpassed.

 

[Sadsic]

so happy to have True Love Waits studio version :'D

 

[jacobs34]

Getting this and the new James Blake in the same week feels like sitting down to a thirty course meal. This will be enough to last me until fall.

 

[Blader]

There's something a bit strange about Thom's vocal delivery on Ful Stop that I can't put my finger on, but it makes for a weird cool effect on the lyrics.

 

[Deserted Maniac Island]

I don't know, but by the end of this album I got a bit teary eyed, and sorta nostalgic. This album is really special, I enjoyed every song on this album, and then it all culminated in True Love Waits, a combination of new and old Radiohead. I just really love this record!

 

[BruceCLea]

There's something a bit strange about Thom's vocal delivery on Ful Stop that I can't put my finger on, but it makes for a weird cool effect on the lyrics.

I think some of his singing is being played in reverse ala Like Spinning Plates.

 

[watershed]

Can't wait to give this a proper listen when I am less busy. I hope it's awesome and makes a good first impression. Lately even good albums have taken time to grow on me. It's been a while since a first listen blew me away.

 

[Flying Toaster]

I ordered the Super Duper Amazeballs edition but until that is released on vinyl it is the higher bitrate downloadable files...

I cannot honestly rank this album yet, on my fourth playthrough as I type this.

I can however say it does not disappoint nor does it feel rushed. I have a strange relationship with this band and they have been a huge part of my life for a very long time. I am honestly very satisfied to have this album out.

 

[daripad]

I'm kind of disliking TLW with every listen :/

Present Tense is extremely good OMG can't get over it