Fantastic album from Radiohead and arguably the first of their “vibe” albums, which would become their signature sound as a band untethered from major label demands; under produced jazz like drum sounds, dry arpeggiated guitars in weird time signatures and Thom Torke’s reverbated smear picking out a vague but compelling narrative. If I have one complaint it is over the mixing and production choices, which I feel don’t always completely maximise the potential of the songwriting, but most of this is entirely deliberate to be fair to Radiohead; an intentional step away from both tidy rock anthems and cold electronica, and an embracing of a looser, more stripped down skifflish sound. So whilst In Rainbows lacks the focused songwriting muscle of OK Computer and the conceptual, muted beauty of Kid A, it comes a very respectable third in my Radiohead rankings.
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The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
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5 | 3.87 | +1.13 |
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