The King Of Limbs

If *In Rainbows*—with its direct, live-influenced songcraft and game-changing honesty box pricing—was Radiohead aligning two distinct visions of the band, this eighth record explores a third way. Concise, dance-indebted, and dripping nocturnal electronica, *The King of Limbs* sees them experiment with galloping loops (“Bloom”) and blippy production (“Morning Mr Magpie”). Still, their knack for affecting avant-rock is undimmed, and “Lotus Flower” is a spectral—and appropriately beautiful—career-high.

Radiohead's latest album is their shortest to date, offering eight new tracks that feel like small but natural evolutions of previously explored directions.

If Kid A and Amenesiac are “twins separated at birth," as Thom Yorke has suggested, then The King of Limbs is their cousin…

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An affirmation of the glory this band has achieved throughout their tenure.

Album track “Bloom” never reaches the astounding heights Radiohead has become known for, but then again, neither does The King of Limbs.

The album is the musical equivalent of curling up into a reflexive fetal position and entering a calmer, more pensive world.

After another short-notice Radiohead release, people haven't stopped trading opinions. But snap judgments don't do justice to this difficult, revelatory music, writes <strong>Alexis Petridis</strong>

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