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| In Rainbows | 
 enlarge | Artist: Radiohead
Label: Ato Records / Red
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  271 reviews
Sales Rank: 157
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 21622
UPC: 880882162221
EAN: 0880882162221
ASIN: B000YXMMAE
Release Date: January 1, 2008
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 Life Changing Music!! January 1, 2008
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
You should buy this album because it could change your life like it did mine. Buying 'In Rainbows' has been the single best decision I've ever made. This album cured my depression, insomnia, and overeating of chocolate truffles. Previous to buying it, I had only a few friends but now I have made many new friends. It also solved my constant monetary difficulties. I even met a beautiful woman who I am planning one day soon to marry. I've tried to change my life in the past by reading some of those hokey new-age books (like, e.g. 'The Secret', which seemed to me utterly pointless), but listening to Radiohead works a lot better. Plus, the songs are absolutely incredible. Try it! You won't be disappointed...
Relevant. Primal. Pensive. Sublime. This is Essential Radiohead. January 3, 2008
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
"It's about that anonymous fear thing," Thom Yorke says about In Rainbows, "sitting in traffic, thinking, 'I'm sure I'm supposed to be doing something else' . . . it's similar to OK Computer in a way. It's much more terrifying. But OK Computer was terrifying too."
There is nothing like the excitement of listening to a new Radiohead album for the first time. I'll never forget the experience of hearing OK Computer--my favorite Radiohead album--for the first time. Radiohead's seventh release, In Rainbows, was completed in June 2007 and mastered in July and August 2007 in a New York City studio. The album marks the band's first album after ending its contract with EMI and the end of Radiohead's longest gap between studio albums. (Hail to the Thief was released in June 2003.) Radiohead first released In Rainbows in October 2007 as a digital download for which customers could choose their own own price. 1.2 million copies were sold on the day of its release. I waited patiently until after all the marketing hype settled to purchase my own copy of In Rainbows in its standard CD format. (I don't know what the average digital download selling price was in October, but I paid about $8 for my CD.) It was worth the wait. In Rainbows is essential Radiohead. It is among the best of the band's recordings, and in my opinion, the best album of 2007. The strong, mulitlayered (like a rainbow) tracks includes:
1. 15 Step (3:57) (features the children's choir of the Matrix Music School).
2. Bodysnatchers (4:02) (recorded in a period of "hyperactive mania," Yorke describes the song as "a little bit like Neu! meets dodgy hippy rock").
3. Nude (4:15) (premiered live during the OK Computer world tour, and was finally released on In Rainbows).
4. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (5:18)
5. All I Need (3:48) (the primal white noise of Radiohead playing loudly in a room).
6. Faust Arp (2:09)
7. Reckoner (4:50)
8. House of Cards (5:28)
9. Jigsaw Falling into Place (4:09) (the album's first single).
10. Videotape (4:39) (a sublimely minimal piano ballad).
G. Merritt
The beat goes round and round January 5, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Sonically, I think _In Rainbows_ is the most interesting Radiohead album. There is a lot of depth and quite a startling amount of originality here, for a band fairly well into their career, even a band as revered and with the proven track record Radiohead possesses. Some have summarized the sounds on offer here by painting this album as a kind of intersection between the experimental, sound collage electronica phase of their career and the vaguely arena ready, immaculately inward looking rock of old. While I think this misses the mark somewhat (Rainbows veers towards the former more and has new elements), this is a fairly good guide to what to expect.
'15 Step' explodes with a heavily distorted beat, which is gradually infiltrated by a delicate, lush guitar lick, and then embellished by Yorke's lilting, melancholy vocals. The melodies are strong but subtle, the structure unconventional, and as such quite a lot of listens are required to get a hold on the track. This certainly sets the tone for the album, although we are thrown an immediate curve ball with 'Bodysnatchers' which is almost visceral compared to much else here: suffice to say it washes out the speakers like a poweful jam and feels more aggressive then any other song. Elsewhere, 'Nude' channels 'Exit Music' and displays a fragile beauty, while 'All I Need', with its hot car metaphors, driving, pulsing organic beat and claustrophobic atmosphere functions as an effective centrepiece of sorts, quite striking in its intensity and dense menace.
The second half of the album is even better. 'Faust Arp' is a gorgeous bridging piece, with am ingenious melody and hordes of entrancing guitar licks. 'Reckoner' is my favourite track, a firm beat anchoring an impossibly emotive melody, Yorke's practically wordless vocal only adding to the mystery. A sparse, affecting masterpiece. Add to this the angular magic of 'Jigsaw Falling Into Place', which feels confrontational and almost out of place, and the thoughtful 'Videotape' and you have the landscape of perfection.
So each track has something to offer, and the record as a whole just shines with ideas: the well placed, syncopated beats behind everything, the great guitar interplay and the admirable restraint and invention in the playing, the powerful vocals and the subtle touches of sound and texture which add so much to the whole. Insular, memorable, addictive beyone belief and oh-so assured, _In Rainbows_ is one for the ages.
 Great distribution/promotion model not my genre January 19, 2008
8 out of 46 found this review helpful
I bought this digital download based off of all the publicity Radiohead got for releasing their album as an mp3 download name your own price promotion and can say that I absolutely hated this album. I guess I am just not a Radiohead kind of person so if you are not familiar with their work or this genre I certainly would not recommend this download. If you are a fan of Radiohead you will most certainly enjoy this album.
Kid A with a heart!!! January 31, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
"In rainbows" is the seventh studio album from UK rockers Radiohead and much like Prince's "Planet earth", caused a storm more from the way it was released (practically free on the internet initially) than for its music. Musically, it's still their progressive distorted sound perfected on "Kid A", but where that release sounded rather robotic and aloof, this is a bit more organic and sensitive with more guitars; rather like "Kid A" with a heart.
At just 10 tracks, it cuts right to the chase, opening with the skittery, initially sparse "15 step" progressing into a guitar driven pseudo jazz sound. The upbeat "Bodysnatchers" features fuzzy guitars, while the haunting ballad "Nude" features Thom's delicate falsetto.
Raising the tempo again is the sunny, guitar drenched "Weird fishes/Arpeggi" (yes, the lyrics are still as vague as ever), followed by the brooding but catchy "All I need" which has what is closest to a regular song structure. "Faust arp" is a tender acoustic string filled ballad which goes back to being musically obtuse.
My favourite is "Reckoner" with gently rolling guitars, live sounding percussion, and Thom in ghostly falsetto mode. Brilliant! "House of cards" (with ghostly effects) reminds me a bit of REM, the upbeat "Jigsaw falling into place" made the UK top 30, and closing is the piano ballad "Videotape" (gentle percussion and harmonies creep in - it does remind me somewhat of Arcade Fire's "Neon bible").
While not topping either release, in my opinion anyway, "In rainbows" is up there with "Ok computer" and "Kid A".
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