Wish I could hear any track of this new album... I really like Radiohead. 

 

You remember correctly!

In Rainbows:

3 Favorites:
1. This recording of "Nude" is worth the 10 dollars I will spend on the physical release of this record; it totally drops the Foehammer on my skull.
2. The baroque-pop strings on "Faust Arp" are precisely the kind of thing that gives me bonerz and they are so well done on this pretty mediocre song, making it one of the moments on the record I replay in my sleep when I dream that Nick Drake is still alive and writing songs just for me but not in a gay way.
3. The dry drum sounds all ttly pwn: crisp but light hats, Four Tet snares, some of their most inventive beat splicing, etc, and the plate reverb on the guitars on "Reckoner" is incredible until the song loses the plot at 2:22 and becomes that awkward-as-hell stilted strummy mess.

3 Frustrations:
1. "Just to mix it up for this next song, we'll put the clean, close-mic'd guitar in your left ear and the drums and vocals in your right ear, and then we'll repeat that on every song on this album!"
2. "Videotape" is pretty much a turd here; about halfway through it I was sure that the out-of-time program was going to become a phase experiment and come back around to time at the end of the song, but instead just employs the newest in Out Of Time Drum In Your Right Ear(tm) Technology and the arrangement doesn't go anywhere at all, exposing just how boring that song is (just as it was when he did that solo piano version from Godrich's basement. Ugh); pour some out for the great song that could have been.
3. Highest percentage of Yorketastic clunkisms on any Radiohead album; while still not as bad as the worst lyrics on The Bends, some of these are pretty miserable (such as the first line on "House of Cards"), and sort of stand in as a synecdoche for the weaker songwriting on this album in general.


Given that, I do dig it and I've listened to it about 9 times.  With time I'm sure I'll like it even more.

yeah, sorry, I liked it (yeah, I really enjoyed the way you put it)
however, I didn't listen to it yet, I tried to find some samples, but didn't succeed... yet
and I wanted to respond afterwards

what noah said above.  even with 62% of the people not paying a dime, they've made about 2 million off it, so good for them!

it's OK. i hate to tell thom yorke, but he's not the first guy to do all these sophomoric studio tricks...and anyone who does dance music recognizes the 'loopish' style of the percussion & guitar riffs...quite honestly, it's freakin' boring to me.
    i think they peaked with paranoid android.  my fave album is the bends,fyi.

that being said, i paid about $9 for the album.
i like these tracks the most on the new one: bodysnatchers,reckoner,jigsaw falling into place.


"making it one of the moments on the record I replay in my sleep when I dream that Nick Drake is still alive and writing songs just for me but not in a gay way.
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LOLZ!  now ask anyone around here who nick drake is 

i thought of a good way to sum it up: a lot of the album sounds more like demos of them noodling around in the studio rather than finished thoughts.
  i hear flashes of brilliance there,but much of it almost sounds lazy..like they said, "meh. that's good enough." rather than really pushing through and polishing the songs.

i don't mean polishing as in slick producing. i mean working and working and reworking the tracks til you can't possibly make them any better.