★★★★★
When it comes to 2003's , Radiohead fans can agree on one thing, it is a Radiohead album. Just about everything else is up for debate. Unlike everything preceding it, 's standing in the Radiohead discography is still in question. Is it overrated or underrated? Is it their best or their worst? Is it a sprawling document of a band trying out as much as possible or a messy work by a band that can't figure out where else to go? Is it way too long or just a little too long...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-09-04
★★★★★
In 2001, Radiohead were double screwed. The rapturous reception of 1997's was supposed to give way to the disappointment of it's coattail riding follow-up. That didn't happen. Instead, Radiohead pulled a change-up on the world with 2000's script flipping which may have gotten an even rapturous reception than its predecessor. Radiohead now had a double backlash bearing down on them. Whatever followed was going to get critically nuked into oblivion...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-06-05
★★★★★
I have not been looking forward to this. Has any record of the modern era been written about as much as ? Publications were already bemoaning the excess of discussion about the album . It's been 14 years since then. The flurry of championing this record come 2009, in which this album was a dead lock for the top 10 of every best of the decade list you read, was so overwhelming it actually boosted the sales of this album back into the Billboard 100 albums list. It's been 5 years since then...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-03-20
★★★★★
Anxiety, claustrophobia, and stress are powerful forces of nature. Sometimes all three of them take over and consume you. Speaking directly from experience, it toys with your life and makes you feel as if the worst possible outcome will take place for no apparent reason. Everything is all in your head and yet that simple fact never makes the sad thoughts plaguing your mind go away...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-02-14
★★★★★
Release Date: May 21st 1997 I'm a firm believer in the idea that music is quite subjective, meaning that there are not any "bad" artists, but only good ones, because everyone is going to like different things, so everything is good to someone. On the flipside of that, there are things I don't like, but I usually pay those things no mind, unless it's Blood On The Dance Floor, then that's just a horrible band that I see no appeal for...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-05-20
★★★★★
Radiohead's OK Computer tour nearly killed them. After much soul-searching, they had created one of the most beloved albums of the 20th century. However, like all good '90s alternative rock bands, they were mortified by success, and the conveyor belt of endless self-promotion was nearly too much for them to bear. While no one wanted Radiohead to do anything differently, for the restlessly inventive British gloom rockers, the path was clear--change or die...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
The band that composed everything from OK Computer to In Rainbows realizes, arguably more than any other rock act out there, that music is a limitless art form: that it should stretch the imagination, far beyond the boundaries of chords, lyrics and beats. (Pink Floyd did just that on Dark Side of the Moon; OK Computer is its 20th century counterpart.) None of these albums is perfect, of course. (Is there ever such a thing in music...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Last Monday, Radiohead unexpectedly revealed that they would be releasing their eight studio album The King of Limbs, arguably giving fans of the band the best Valentine's Day present ever. After usurping our attention away from what would have been a weeklong, watered-down Grammy dissection, Radiohead demonstrated once again why they stand a full two (or 15) steps ahead of everyone else in the music business...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
'The King Of Limbs' is a difficult record to review. Like a cockroach, it skitters away into the shadows when you shine a light on it. It's probably the band's least accessible record to date - the beats are never firm enough to dance to, the lyrics are cloaked in reverb, and there's barely a guitar to be heard. It's a deep, layered, album that crams a lot into just eight tracks and 37 minutes, but with a nonchalance that belies what's hidden below...
- www.thecmuwebsite.com
2013-04-01
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