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In Rainbows | 
| Artist: Radiohead
Label: XL
Category: Music
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Rating:  134 reviews
Sales Rank: 470
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.2
UPC: 634904032425
EAN: 0634904032425
ASIN: B000YIXBVI
Release Date: December 31, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | 15 Step | | • | Bodysnatchers | | • | Nude | | • | Weird Fishes/Arpeggi | | • | All I Need | | • | Faust Arp | | • | Reckoner | | • | House Of Cards | | • | Jigsaw Falling Into Place | | • | Videotape |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It's very likely that even if you haven't heard the contents of Radiohead's seventh album, you'll be aware of its existence. Released as a digital download by the band themselves before a CD release was even considered, iIn Rainbows/i was lauded for innovation before a note of music was heard. Luckily, the music matches the hype--it takes the best part of Radiohead's previous works and advances the formula even further. While the opener "15 Step"--all skittering drum patterns and dub-style bass--may hark back to the electronica of iKid A/i, the sound soon gives way to a more guitar-based sound. Whilst not as musically heavy as previous albums, the tunes are far more focused and passionate--"Bodysnatchers" is based around a hypnotic, distorted bass riff, while the beautiful string-drenched "Nude" is a true Radiohead classic. Lyrically, like Thom Yorke's solo album iThe Eraser/i, the lyrics are sketches of suburban paranoia, and the eerie sense of things no! t being quite right. This is especially true on the piano-based closer "Videotape", which poignantly details a man watching his life's achievements in his final moments. In short, iIn Rainbows/i is another masterpiece from the Oxford quintet. i--Thomas Allott/i
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 This wants to be your lover January 1, 2009
Tom Chase (London)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I read a quote on "In Rainbows" that stated Radiohead had finally met expectations by reaching them. I can certainly echo this statement, and perhaps even stake the claim that this may well be Radiohead's best album. Certainly a huge claim, but "In Rainbows" is a wondrous album.
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br /I will keep things short as many reviewers have picked apart and detailed individual songs and themes. So, most importantly for me, "In Rainbows" treads that impossibly difficult line of being mostly accessible yet surprisingly lasting. It simply does not tire. Months and months of sporadic listens and I still become totally involved and immersed, a feat that separates truly great albums from good ones. The overall sound of the album perfectly blends the sombre electronic tones of "Kid A" and "Amnesiac" with the guitar-driven rock of "Ok Computer" and "The Bends". It's satisfyingly experimental when need be, yet equally sparse and simplistic. It's cold and desolate at times, warm and genial at others. It is everything I can want from a Radiohead album. Beautiful, consistent, cutting-edge music.
Peerless (as usual) November 19, 2007
Mr. Gideon D. Brody (Manchester, UK)
127 out of 150 found this review helpful
After a protracted stint out of the limelight, Radiohead have appeared, as if out of nowhere, with their seventh record In Rainbows.
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br /Radiohead's last offering, Hail to the Thief, was, if anything, a slightly bloated record. Although it satiated the pro-guitar lobby, it felt too long and lacked the eccentricity and creativity of Kid A and Amnesiac. The comparatively short In Rainbows, while certainly not an exercise in regression, recalls the eerie, otherworldly atmosphere that so characterised those two triumphs of experimentation and abandonment. However, never has Radiohead's experimentation been so accessible, so tender and so achingly beautiful.
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br /The album opens as expected. 15 Step could have been a track on Thom Yorke's recent Eraser project. It utilises Yorke's obvious appetite for creepy, disjointed, discombobulated electronica hinged by Johnny Greenwood's fretwork and Yorke's melodious sarcasm and wit. Yet amid the computerised confusion, In Rainbows radiates with longing, regret and a deep sadness. These are emotions not approached with much regularity by Radiohead.
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br /Unlike The Bends or OK Computer, which openly portray a mood of coarse resignation, In Rainbows insinuates and implies through its sometime sardonic yet often tender lyrics and soothes and stirs through its shimmering and resonant melodies. This is Radiohead at their absolute finest. Nude (Big Ideas) is a perfect illustration of Radiohead as they are today. The song is about infidelity and is racked with guilt: 'So don't get any big ideas / They're not gonna happen / You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking'. Similarly, House of Cards touches on the same subject matter. Infidelity? This is Radiohead. Radiohead make songs (if one will allow me to criminally paraphrase) about escaping death, inadequacy, paranoia and corrupt governments. Not this time. Radiohead have approached their vulnerabilities and by facing inner frailties, they have managed to create frighteningly personal musical expositions.
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br /Reckoner, perhaps the highlight amid an album of highlights, starts with cycles of simple guitar riffs over a soft tambourine rhythm. Soon the guitar pattern swells into a mellifluous melody that circles, butterfly-like, into a hypnotising and then rousing string-laden ascension. Contrast this with the opening eeriness of All I Need. Yorke mumbles: 'I'm an animal trapped in your hot car / I'm all the days that you choose to ignore' while a lazy marching baseline plods drunkenly along. The song deals with the desperate nature of infatuation, over-dependency and isolationism: 'I'm gonna stick with you / Because there are no others'. However, this saturnine mood soon transforms and escalates into a thickly layered release of jolting piano chords, crashing cymbals and the breathtaking, unnerving anguish of Yorke at his majestic pinnacle. This is a song truly intimidating in its beauty, and while many still feel Radiohead to be too challenging and too abstract it is always worth scratching away at that indurate surface.
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br /Faust Arp is a clear nod to the genial qualities of Elliot Smith and is a clear reminder that Radiohead, the great innovators, are also open to influence without ever stepping into the murky territory of imitation or smugly satisfied rendition. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi exhibits a sincerity and longing that we have seldom witnessed before: 'In the deepest ocean / The bottom of the sea / Your eyes / They turn me'. Never before has Thom Yorke sung of such longing and blind love and affection. Johnny Greenwood's unusual use of special effects allows his riffs and melodies to shine as always as he creates an arcane underwater graveyard landscape in which Thom's nervous moanings fester.
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br /Videotape, the album's climax, is so tender in its sentiment as to be almost unapproachable. The tape in question is a posthumous memento for children left behind. Yorke reflects this achingly sad sentiment with some of his innermost outpourings: 'This is my way of saying goodbye / Because I can't do it face to face'. The song fades out as chiming piano chords soften the overhanging electronic death march.
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br /In Rainbows is flush with subtle melody, truncated crescendos and abrupt endings. It is the better for it and make no mistake, this is still Radiohead alright. There is gloominess and introspection. But this is a band that is getting on a bit in years now and perhaps finally, they are opening up and revealing their true colours.
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Those who have scored this low April 1, 2008
Barry Parker (South Woodham Ferrers, Essex United Kingdom)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Music is undoubtedly a subjective and personal appreciation. There have always been and always will be, bands that people either love or hate. Even Radiohead will have their detractors but I honestly believe that if you are a true fan of music that continually evolves and progresses, then you must surely admire this band. I think "In Rainbows" is fantastic and it just keeps growing on me. The compositional skills and structuring of the songs for a band of Radiohead's long standing, demonstrate a remarkable level of freshness and inspiration. There are some low scores and absurdly negative comments in the review section and even some high scores where reviewers have indicated great music but suggested it is nothing new compared to the band's previous releases. I do not expect everyone to automatically love Radiohead but let's face it "In Rainbows" is a great achievement and in the years to come will be regarded as a classic.
Worth waiting for February 11, 2008
Antonio Moncayo (Zaragoza)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
It takes a long time for Radiohead to release a new album ,but when you listen to them you know why.
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br /This is the best studio album since OK Computer and has 10 tracks. The question is , Is it to the level of OK Computer ?
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br /The answer is yes . The is no Karmapolice in this album but All I need is as good as No surprises ;a magical haunted short song that I first listened in the V festival 2 years ago and sounds even better in the album.The rest of the tracks vary in style but the are all superbly produced.
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br /House of cards , reckoner and Body snatchers are the other 3 great tracks in the album and the could be compared to the second part of Ok Computer.
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br /There is less electric noise that made Kid A and Amnesiac not so palatable and more acoustic sounds.
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br /You can't fault this album and it will not disappoint any Radiohead fans.
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br /5 stars
Spare a thought for the fiftysomethings June 5, 2008
D. M. Clarkson (Bradford,England)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Review No 103 to date and if you're a Radiohead head you probably wont have read any of them before rushing out to buy or download this magnificent piece of musical mastery. So I suppose this is for the newcomers, and there will be plenty. Do you know that approximately one million people celebrate their 16th birthday every year, and that's just in the UK. 'In Rainbows' is a good place to launch your Radiohead obsession. It's probably the most accessable album since 'The Bends', its easy to get on with. You could describe it as 'easy listening' by Radiohead's standards. You wont have the same relationship that you might have with 'Kid A' or 'Amnesiac'( my favourite RH albums)It will be your friend for life, no mood swings or the silent treatment. No tantrums or funny looks. 'In rainbows' will, quite simply , be your best mate until you croak. Please don't buy the singles. Why Radiohead ever decided to be a singles band is beyond me. Stick to the albums and enjoy the concepts. Once you've grasped them you'll really start to enjoy the music.
br /Anyway what do you think to this. When I first heard Radiohead, a couple of days after they'd released 'The Bends' I was a mere thirtysomething. Now that I'm a fiftysomething I have a bit of a problem with my pork pies,yes it's good that they're using more paper as opposed to plastic in order to reduce the said carbon footprint and hence save the planet, but the lyrics are printed so small I have to have every light in the house on so I can read them...... Thom you haven't thought this through, if you want to save the planet print the bloody words BIGGER!!
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