I find it amusing that so many prominent music journalists from prominent publications found the need to release a review of this album mere hours after it became available for download on the band's website. Like I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm not one to make a snap judgment on something as potentially earthshaking as a new Radiohead LP. Let's face it, Radiohead leaves a wake of epic everywhere they go, so if there's one album I want to spend a little extra time getting to know, it's this.
But what I hear in this album is a sound that is clearly different from previous LPs, yet unmistakably Radiohead. Overall it's a more percussive album than any of the others, many of the tracks sounding akin to "The Reckoner" from In Rainbows or"Backdrifts" from Hail to the Thief. It's also a little more solemn-sounding than In Rainbows, yet it still manages to maintain an optimistic sound even amidst its bleakest moments. Anyhow, I'll give a full review later, but for now you can give it a listen yourself here.
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