release date: May 8, 2016
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,88]
producer: Nigel Godrich, Radiohead
label: XL Recordings - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "Burn the Witch" - 2. "Daydreaming" - 4. "Desert Island Disk" (4 / 5) (live) - 5. "Ful Stop" - 7. "Identikit" (4 / 5) - 8. "The Numbers" - 11. "True Love Waits"
9th studio album by Radiohead is a self-released album originally issued as a digital download album and a month later released on vinyl and cd through XL Recordings. The album follows more than five years after The King of Limbs (Feb. 2011). The sound is more like a combo of things they have already explored: The fine art rock of In Rainbows combined with a freer music, which both points to Kid A, Amnesiac, and The King of Limbs with its loops and sampling technique; however, here much more refined to match the characteristics of single compositions and with the addition of strings.
I really enjoy this album and have come to see it as a real grower where tracks also point to the solo works by Yorke, and I basically think of it as no less than Radiohead's second best album.
[ allmusic.com, Q Magazine, The Guardian, NME 4 / 5, Rolling Stone, Spin 4,5 / 5 stars ]
