It’s the same old story, you wait ages for a bus and then two come along at once. The Radiohead story in recent times has been eerily similar to this because after their three year hiatus after OK Computer, Radiohead have now released two albums in the space of 10 months. I've had an MP3 copy of this album for some time now, but MP3 as a format doesn't really do music much justice. Now I have the hard evidence to draw from and believe me when I say there is nothing quite like it. It’s hard to find a way to view this album. It was recorded during the long and fraught recording sessions that produced Kid A, so is it a sister, a progression, or ...  Read the complete review

Radiohead are not a band that I have ever really got. They've obviously done some good songs but in my opinion not enough to justify the acclaim from fans and critics alike as well as continual inclusion in all manner of top album countdowns. Often they are held in high esteem for their inventiveness and while I don't deny that they have often changed sound I believe that much of this has been vastly overrated and resulted in unlistenable and sometimes boring music. I bought this album upon it's release, probably due to the hype and remember it as being a truly awful record and I was expecting to be awarding it one star. However, after listening it 3 or 4 ...  Read the complete review

This is a quick review of Radiohead's fifth album, Amnesiac which was released back in 2001, only a year after the successful 'Kid A', which itself had taken three years to make. The answer to why Amnesiac came along so quick was that they recorded the albums at the same time but instead of releasing a double album, they spaced them out over two albums. Kid A itself was a mass departure from the legendary 'Ok Computer' which was also a departure from its predecessor 'the bends' (also legendary). Kid A lacked guitars and gave a more electronic sound to the band. It was the first Radiohead album to not feature an official single release so fans and critics ...  Read the complete review

***CLAng- ClAnG – clang… The opening track spins into your ears in a drunken orgy of dizziness and claustrophobia. Soon, the electric hubbub slides in and Thom’s fragile voice beckons, almost threateningly: ‘I’m a reasonable man; get off my case…’*** Amnesiac, for any cave dwellers or Texans, is the follow-up album to the immense best-seller, and winner of the Most Controversial Record of The Year award, Kid A. For a lot of those Bends addicts, listening to Kid A was like watching their girl/boyfriends sleeping with a Turkish estate agent. Even massive fan and lead singer of a small American band, Michael Stipe was ...  Read the complete review

Now before I go headlong into this opinion it's best to note how I stand on Radiohead and their albums. I wasn't too bothered about Pablo Honey I didn't really hear it until after the Bends, which incidently I thought was excellent, in turns strong, catchy and fun while at the same time powerfully melancholic. When OK Computer came along I wasn't really listening, so let it drift by me as the music buying public and industry went mental. When I finally did sit down to listen I almost cried with joy at the importance of the album...It was damn good! Too good to follow? No, once you have produced an album of such quality an artist ...  Read the complete review