In Rainbows
Love and melody return as Radiohead hit a fine balance between adventure and warmth. With no label to please and a pay-what-you-want purchase model planned, *In Rainbows* was free to be wilfully avant garde. Instead, amid plenty of rhythmic and electronic flourishes, the band re-engage with tunes and guitars, framing emotional intensity within straightforward rock (“Bodysnatchers”) and gently burning love songs that are artful without being oblique (“All I Need”, “House of Cards”). Of course, the love Thom Yorke sings of is darkly complicated but it’s satisfying to hear his aching falsetto at the fore again.
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Exactly what you’d expect from <b>Radiohead</b>; intelligent, satisfyingly thought-provoking and sure to be lauded by all who appreciate the less conventional.
This is a new Radiohead, one that subtly melds synths, loops, trips and beats into mid-tempo indie rock, instead of clustering disparate styles.
As with almost every Radiohead album, there are moments of brilliance, inventiveness, and surprise.
<p>The new album may represent the strongest collection of songs the band has assembled for a decade.</p>
Radiohead - In Rainbows review: With the addition of a second disc, In Rainbows loses some flow but maintains the original atmosphere and quality of the first disc.