4.3 + This is Radiohead at their most subtle and mature. I miss the murky electronic quagmires on "Kid A" and the moments of ecstatic opera on "Let Down." But after a couple of relatively weaker releases ("Amnesiac", "Hail to the Thief"), "In Rainbows" feeling like a true return to form. For once, their studio wizardry and abstruse musical influences took a backseat allowing us to hear the music for what it is. The first half is brilliant, particularly "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi." The second half lags somewhat with "Reckoner" and "House of Cards" but "Videotape" wraps it with a hauntingly beautiful closer. Of their brilliant albums, this one rests somewhere at the bottom of their first tier but it's a wholly satisfying album nonetheless.