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In Rainbows | 
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| Artist: Radiohead
Label: XL
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
Buy New: £7.98
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Rating:  120 reviews
Sales Rank: 310
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.2
UPC: 634904032425
EAN: 0634904032425
ASIN: B000YIXBVI
Release Date: December 31, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | 15 Step | | • | Bodysnatchers | | • | Nude | | • | Weird Fishes/Arpeggi | | • | All I Need | | • | Faust Arp | | • | Reckoner | | • | House Of Cards | | • | Jigsaw Falling Into Place | | • | Videotape |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It's very likely that even if you haven't heard the contents of Radiohead's seventh album, you'll be aware of its existence. Released as a digital download by the band themselves before a CD release was even considered, In Rainbows was lauded for innovation before a note of music was heard. Luckily, the music matches the hype--it takes the best part of Radiohead's previous works and advances the formula even further. While the opener "15 Step"--all skittering drum patterns and dub-style bass--may hark back to the electronica of Kid A, the sound soon gives way to a more guitar-based sound. Whilst not as musically heavy as previous albums, the tunes are far more focused and passionate--"Bodysnatchers" is based around a hypnotic, distorted bass riff, while the beautiful string-drenched "Nude" is a true Radiohead classic. Lyrically, like Thom Yorke's solo album The Eraser, the lyrics are sketches of suburban paranoia, and the eerie sense of things no! t being quite right. This is especially true on the piano-based closer "Videotape", which poignantly details a man watching his life's achievements in his final moments. In short, In Rainbows is another masterpiece from the Oxford quintet. --Thomas Allott
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 Peerless (as usual) November 19, 2007
G. Brody (Manchester, UK)
115 out of 136 found this review helpful
After a protracted stint out of the limelight, Radiohead have appeared, as if out of nowhere, with their seventh record In Rainbows.
Radiohead's last offering, Hail to the Thief, was, if anything, a slightly bloated record. Although it satiated the pro-guitar lobby, it felt too long and lacked the eccentricity and creativity of Kid A and Amnesiac. The comparatively short In Rainbows, while certainly not an exercise in regression, recalls the eerie, otherworldly atmosphere that so characterised those two triumphs of experimentation and abandonment. However, never has Radiohead's experimentation been so accessible, so tender and so achingly beautiful.
The album opens as expected. 15 Step could have been a track on Thom Yorke's recent Eraser project. It utilises Yorke's obvious appetite for creepy, disjointed, discombobulated electronica hinged by Johnny Greenwood's fretwork and Yorke's melodious sarcasm and wit. Yet amid the computerised confusion, In Rainbows radiates with longing, regret and a deep sadness. These are emotions not approached with much regularity by Radiohead.
Unlike The Bends or OK Computer, which openly portray a mood of coarse resignation, In Rainbows insinuates and implies through its sometime sardonic yet often tender lyrics and soothes and stirs through its shimmering and resonant melodies. This is Radiohead at their absolute finest. Nude (Big Ideas) is a perfect illustration of Radiohead as they are today. The song is about infidelity and is racked with guilt: 'So don't get any big ideas / They're not gonna happen / You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking'. Similarly, House of Cards touches on the same subject matter. Infidelity? This is Radiohead. Radiohead make songs (if one will allow me to criminally paraphrase) about escaping death, inadequacy, paranoia and corrupt governments. Not this time. Radiohead have approached their vulnerabilities and by facing inner frailties, they have managed to create frighteningly personal musical expositions.
Reckoner, perhaps the highlight amid an album of highlights, starts with cycles of simple guitar riffs over a soft tambourine rhythm. Soon the guitar pattern swells into a mellifluous melody that circles, butterfly-like, into a hypnotising and then rousing string-laden ascension.
Contrast this with the opening eeriness of All I Need. Yorke mumbles: 'I'm an animal trapped in your hot car / I'm all the days that you choose to ignore' while a lazy marching baseline plods drunkenly along. The song deals with the desperate nature of infatuation, over-dependency and isolationism: 'I'm gonna stick with you / Because there are no others'. However, this saturnine mood soon transforms and escalates into a thickly layered release of jolting piano chords, crashing cymbals and the breathtaking, unnerving anguish of Yorke at his majestic pinnacle. This is a song truly intimidating in its beauty, and while many still feel Radiohead to be too challenging and too abstract it is always worth scratching away at that indurate surface.
Faust Arp is a clear nod to the genial qualities of Elliot Smith and is a clear reminder that Radiohead, the great innovators, are also open to influence without ever stepping into the murky territory of imitation or smugly satisfied rendition. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi exhibits a sincerity and longing that we have seldom witnessed before: 'In the deepest ocean / The bottom of the sea / Your eyes / They turn me'. Never before has Thom Yorke sung of such longing and blind love and affection. Johnny Greenwood's unusual use of special effects allows his riffs and melodies to shine as always as he creates an arcane underwater graveyard landscape in which Thom's nervous moanings fester.
Videotape, the album's climax, is so tender in its sentiment as to be almost unapproachable. The tape in question is a posthumous memento for children left behind. Yorke reflects this achingly sad sentiment with some of his innermost outpourings: 'This is my way of saying goodbye / Because I can't do it face to face'. The song fades out as chiming piano chords soften the overhanging electronic death march.
In Rainbows is flush with subtle melody, truncated crescendos and abrupt endings. It is the better for it and make no mistake, this is still Radiohead alright. There is gloominess and introspection. But this is a band that is getting on a bit in years now and perhaps finally, they are opening up and revealing their true colours.
Another Masterpiece February 9, 2008
Mr. Richard G. Thwaites (Bournemouth, U.K)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Radiohead have done it again, they have produced another masterpiece. Truly brillant. Is it as good as Ok Computer, to answer that you have to appreciate that all masterpieces of art even by the same artist aren't all the same. In my opinion Stanley Kubrick's - The Shining is a masterpiece, likewise Stanley kubrick's - 2001 A Space Oddesey is also in my opinion a masterpiece in cinema, but no one could ever say that those two films are similar to one another. Likewise, comparing Radiohead epic Ok Computer or the equally exquiste The Bends album to this album is trying to compare, prefering Chocolate Icecream to Strawberry Truffle Icecream, both are extremely lovely but completely different. What i would say definately though is, that this Radiohead album is BY FAR THEIR MOST GORGEOUS Album they have ever made, by quite some distance. If you are wanting or expecting a album like Ok Computer or The Bends, don't buy this one, on the other hand if u are wanting to be blown away by the majesticness of this GORGEOUSLY, BEAUTIFUL and truly STUNNING album PLEASE BUY.
Worth waiting for March 27, 2008
Antonio Moncayo (Zaragoza)
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
It takes a long time for Radiohead to release a new album ,but when you listen to them you know why.
This is the best studio album since OK Computer and has 10 tracks. The question is , Is it to the level of OK Computer ?
The answer is yes . The is no Karmapolice in this album but All I need is as good as No surprises ;a magical haunted short song that I first listened in the V festival 2 years ago and sounds even better in the album.The rest of the tracks vary in style but the are all superbly produced.
House of cards , reckoner and Body snatchers are the other 3 great tracks in the album and the could be compared to the second part of Ok Computer.
There is less electric noise that made Kid A and Amnesiac not so palatable and more acoustic sounds.
You can't fault this album and it will not disappoint any Radiohead fans.
5 stars
in rainbows June 15, 2008
K. P. Dean
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
there is not much to choose between any of the radiohead albums, but in rainbows excells. they have never stood still, but this is genius. they could have done what oasis did and release 10 versions of the bends, but no. thiis is what makes radiohead unique, bless 'em
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