5punk

http://www.inrainbows.com/

Pay what you want for the download-only version (+ a £0.45 credit card fee), discbox version is £40.

I'm listening to it now, and it's great so far.

i couldnt find anywhwere on the site what format the download is in.

Does it have drm balls???

It's mp3, no DRM and 160kbps.

It's rather good, I've listened to it several times. The music is more traditional sounding than their more recent stuff. Still very much Radiohead, but less beeps and blips.

spoodie wrote:The music is more traditional sounding than their more recent stuff. Still very much Radiohead, but less beeps and blips.

That's quite/but not surprising, (if that makes sense) after the progression through kid a, amnesiac and yorke's eraser (which I think is a great album) I thought a new radiohead album would be even more electro, despite hail to the thief being slightly more old school radiohead, I definitely thought he'd gone round to squarepushers house too many times.

I still think Kid A is their best.

I seem to have 1 or 2 songs on each album that I think are absolute classics, whatever genre they lean toward, it's generally all good.

I liked "Creep", but not much since.

I loved everything up to and including OK computer. I got confused after that.

I agree with Pete though that tehir albums since OKC have all had at least 2 tracks that have hit me in the face and screamed "THE ONLY THING I HATE MORE THAN YOU IS ME" which I consider to be the yardstick fro a good radiohead song. Punchup at a wedding and teh Gloaming are 2 that stick in my mind from Hail although that album was more hit than miss (how could you fail to love a song titled after a disease that disfigures bunnies). The ones I like always seem to be the more old school songs though (although I accept that teh Gloaming is something different).

What I find interesting (and frustrating) about RHs discography is that they were developing along a particular path (perhaps towards suicide, but it was a path) then, with Kid A and Amnesiac, they seemed to try and jump tracks. My personal take on this is that they saw all of the RH clone bands starting to form and thought "FUCK, I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS" and so tried to dissociate themselves from their own style and find something new. Didn't work imho.

If this new album is even more old school than Hail then perhaps they have recognised that when you're fortunate enough to have a style as distinctive as theirs, you can't just trade it in for another and also that you shuoldn't hold youself responsible fro all the shite that might emulate you (I recall a reviewer once crediting radiohead as the source of such greats as Coldplay and Sir Jimmy of Blunt, heady praise indeed)

I will definitely buy it and will almost certainly not be able to resist teh 40 quid pack (damn me)