They even posed in their new promotional photos looking very Wicker Man. The fact that it’s named after a 1,000-year-old tree is promising very British, that.
Was there anything that wowed you on In Rainbows? “House of Cards” was sexy, but it really could have been a Dave Matthews Band song, couldn’t it? But it was, of course, another “masterpiece.” So it’s with a little bit of baggage that I wait for my zip of The King of Limbs to download. And I wasn’t even sure it was so great anymore. For a few dollars (or for free, if you took them up on their offer to download 2007’s In Rainbows for as much or as little as you felt like paying), anyone could pretend to have great taste. Computer, if I’m honest) releases and nod like they were really “getting it.” Radiohead became a kind of shortcut to rock depth, the way placing a few New Yorkers on your coffee table is a shortcut to, well, lit depth. It was simply because I got very tired of watching other people listen to the band’s post-Kid A (really post-O.K. It wasn’t because Thom Yorke’s voice was any less gorgeous (although he did indulge in a penchant for occasionally burying it under various appliances).
It wasn’t because I was a rockist and Johnny Greenwood stopped playing those stonking power chords (although I missed them). I divested about 75 percent of my emotions concerning Radiohead about a decade ago.
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