Top

radiohead - in rainbows review

January 7, 2008 by cash · Leave a Comment 

Radiohead.

You either get em, or you don’t. I’m happily one of the former. Their music has always seemed to cast a surreal light on my experience. I remember Kid A serving as the icy soundtrack several years ago for a dangerous, blizzard blurred drive over the winding highways of northern Arizona. Racing towards Las Vegas for New Year’s eve, the songs pushed us on with equal parts excitement (for the trip), and fear (of what might be lurking just beyond the foggy windows of our frozen car). Radiohead is like that. A study in dichotomy. For every spooky piece of “How To Disappear Completely” melancholia, there’s a subversive anthem like “I Might Be Wrong” ready to rock.

It’s kind of surprising then that they return with “In Rainbows”; their most Read more

Bottom