Hail To The Thief - Radiohead Reviews

Coming after Radiohead's double-suite departure of Kid A and Amnesiac, this was always going to be a sticking point for many fans. Do they carry on virtually guitarless, or make a full blown rock record. This floats comfortably in the middle, never quite as out and out rock as Paranoid Android or Just, but never as eccentric as Idioteque. This ...  Read the complete review

(We're on. Thats a nice way to start Jonny) "Hail To The Thief" is often seen by fans and even by the band as a step in the wrong direction, a mistake, but me personally, as a huge Radiohead fan, believe this album is the 2nd best they have ever produced. It may be a jumble of tracks, but they are all solid tracks. They ...  Read the complete review

Hail to the Thief has never received any of the high acclaim which is lavished upon the other three big Radiohead albums, although if you ask me it's just as good, and is a logical progression into a slightly louder direction whilst retaining the vintage Radiohead bizarreness and progression. The opening 2+2=5 gets the album underway ...  Read the complete review

With their sixth studio album, Radiohead faced the unenviable task of sticking to their guns and producing an album which fitted in with their reputation of mutating musicians, while retaining the quality of their previous work. After all the fuss over the transition between OK Computer and Kid A, it would have been quite the let down for the boys ...  Read the complete review

I started out being a huge Radiohead fan, without actually owning any of their albums. I saw a quick preview of this album in Q mag back in 2002, flicking through very "suggestive" pages about Moby, I stumble on a picture of the Gods that are Ed O'Brien and Thom Yorke with the Q award in hand. Flicking through again, I find an ...  Read the complete review

This is still not a return to the Radiohead of old, but they continue to push the boundaries and explore their musical abilities. Radiohead are still an immensely talented band and invaluable to the music world. Credit should be given for the want to continually shy away from the consumer ideals of the commercial music market. Radiohead are by no ...  Read the complete review

So the last month has seen Radiohead release there 6th full length album and after the disaster that was Amnesiac they really needed to pull something out the bag. To be honest Tom Yorke has almost managed it and Radiohead after a brief de-railment they have got back on track and are once again on track. Hail To The Thief in terms of gauge falls ...  Read the complete review

Readers! Well, it's been a long time since Amnesiac, the last proper studio album, which, let's face it, wasn't particularly well received. You might start to think of Radiohead as a Star Trek/Wars phenomenon, where if you've not noticed them until album number 6 proper (which this is), you aren't going to get them at all. ...  Read the complete review