Radiohead - In Rainbows

HOLYSHIT

40 pounds :/

i knew they would pull a stunt like this, they were too quiet for too long, and it's precisely the sort of thing they'd do to regain some freshness. not for them the interminable anticipation, the scraps thrown to the hounds.

hopefully their work with mark 'spike' stent (he who produced mansun's 'six') will have brooked some major reward. LONGER SONG LENGTHS PLZ.

wau

is this nothng to do with the hoax then? was that just a coincidence?

It did get the internets chattering about them for a couple days.

So 80 fucking dollars for us in the States? Gee thanks, Radiohead. Fuck you.

The download price is "up to you", though. Srsly. Pay 50 cents if you want.

Also keep in mind that the $80 is getting you a deluxe edition double vinyl, a CD, and various extras.

I'm sure "regular" vinyls and CD editions are in the wings.

holy moly

Yeah, but god forbid that as a longtime Radiohead fan I'd want to buy the physical version.

Stanley Donwood, Dr. Tchock, Phil Allsopp, Max Kolumbus, Karolina Wihed

no other internet site IN THE WORLD seems to be talking about this.

This is the best thing ever.

Atease thread: http://www.ateaseweb.com/mb/index.php?showtopic=235019104

It was just announced like hrs ago dude plus it is Sunday. xpost

15 STEP
BODYSNATCHERS
NUDE
WEIRD FISHES/ARPEGGI
ALL I NEED
FAUST ARP
RECKONER
HOUSE OF CARDS
JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE
VIDEOTAPE

it's entirely possible to pay nothing for the download, which helps offset the costs of boxset/vinyl/cd versions that one may purchase in the future (plus it gets you on the mailing list)

no BANGERS AND MASH?

dont forget CD2

MK 1
DOWN IS THE NEW UP
GO SLOWLY
MK 2
LAST FLOWERS
UP ON THE LADDER
BANGERS AND MASH
4 MINUTE WARNING

ah.

This is a really stupid idea.

i'm going to tape it off the radio

This is a really great idea.

-- The Brainwasher, Sunday, September 30, 2007 6:55 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

This is a great idea. I wouldn't buy a Radiohead CD these days, but I'll throw in a couple of bucks for a download just to see what it's about.

http://radiohead.com/deadairspace/

I like that they're having a good laugh in the picture...

Gah I cant afford £40 for this and i dont just want mp3s.

atease doesn't really seem to be responding for me atm, what are those dudes saying? Do they have linxxx or anyfing??

Guys, the phys stuff doesn't begin shipping until December, by which point I'm sure they will have announced plans for alternative phys purchasing options.

Also, for us US-types, it's important to note that the $80 is also covering international shipping.

I think the Atease servers are overloaded with people going insane.

The song titles read like SNL parodies of Radiohead.

this is not my legal birth name. I am an artist. I passingly said I was selling cds for 1000 dollars as a joke. someone made a big thing about it, put up a false interview..and made it look real. I was never selling cd's for 1000.
they spread these lies all over the net and someone put an article in the San Fransico Weekly and another newspaper in Cleveland ..Sf Weekly is owned by News Times. They put a false newspaper article about my 1000 dollar cd..when I am selling my cd's for 20 dollars.

1000+ posts by Tuesday

haha the sneakiness of doing it now at midnight on a sunday.

i have an old live recording of "nude" from the ok computer tour and it's one of my favorite radiohead songs

WEIRD FISHES/ARPEGGI

I'm very curious how this will turn out. Loved the minimal live version of "Arpeggi"

WEIRD FISHES

good going, radiohead.

Oh wow, a free download! (I am credit card-less, and they really don't need the money...)

I would eventually buy a real-life, NOT-40 pounds, one-format version in stores though. I wonder who will release it?

Fun. Hats off to them, this is clever. I ordered one just to be part of it all

Am I a tightarse for getting free downnload maybe/n?

NO.

I'll be buying the vinyl when it's priced sanely anyway, I don't see why I shouldn't take advantage of a free download when it's handed to me like this.

Stereogum reports: http://www.stereogum.com/archives/new-radiohead-album-in-rainbows-out-october-10th.html#more

Waiting for the P4K news story any minute now . . .

me, too! ;)

ILX BEATS P4K TO PUNCH, VOTED BEST SITE EVER < / lies >

@Scott: Hahaha. Good one. :D

YESSSSSSSSSSS

By the way, it looks like the download only includes the songs from the first disc.

Being the sucker I am, I will pay for all the special edition nonsense so that I do not kick myself later.

i have blogged it i wins pfuckers

YAY P4K!

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/46015-new-radiohead-album-aaaaaaahhh

Hahahaha. That headline (and sub-headline )sums up the general response quite well, I think.

I think this album cemented Radiohead’s relevancy for another decade at least. I wonder if they would have faded from the spotlight and split up in the mid-10s if instead of following HTTT with one of the more accessible albums of their career they had went into the rhythm experimentalism of TKOL or the more atmospheric meanderings of AMSP.

Everything on it is so strong, but I still think of it as a mini album with a double A-side at the start. The opening two tracks just a very different vibe

Sort of the same as AMSP, putting a banger upfront that wouldn't fit anywhere else on the album (although I think the sequencing on IR would work any number of ways).

I don't really understand the ascendancy of Weird Fishes and Jigsaw over almost every other Radiohead song on RYM (yes I know), let alone anything else on In Rainbows. I still find the rest of it magnificent tho.

"weird fishes/arpeggi" is the best thing they ever did but "jigsaw falling into place" is one of the lesser tracks here (as good as it still is)

I've been having fun coming up with harmonies for Jigsaw. And it's so well-sequenced! Not that the album needed a barnstormer... I can kind of imagine Go Slowly in the same spot, clinching Side B's downer vibe after the relative release of House of Cards. But I love that Jigsaw is so frantic.

Yeah its big appeal is that it careens away, barely under control, and you can feel the band lock in for the ride. Seems like the most fun of all their songs.
Shout out to the Live From the Basement version of this album too, there’s magic in the room.

Nude is my favourite thing on this. The extended coda has a such a stark sense of peace to it, it's like the band shaking off all the tension and angst of the opening two tracks (and most of their output prior) and saying "It's okay, we can relax for the rest of the album"

For me it was Reckoner the one that made the heaviest impression on first listens.

xp that so perfectly encapsulates why I've never quite gelled with this album. that tension/angst is exactly what I come to this band for

I am still very firmly in the “great individual songs, strongly dislike it as an album” camp

My Weird Fishes fatigue is probably enhanced further by most of the stuff I've heard by the Smile sounding very similar to it. That wishy washy krautrock easy listening isn't really something I need more of rn.

I still strongly feel that the first two tracks belong to HTTT. 15 Steps is Thom having an IDM wank. Bodysnatchers is Jonny having a heavy guitar wank. Th rest is wonderful. They're not bad tracks on their own, but they are skips

It is a shame really because it makes the whole thing feel transitional. The first two tracks sound like HTTT songs, Videotape sounds like TKOL. Everything in the middle is just its own beautiful opulent thing

xp the heavy riffs on Bodysnatchers are Thom!

and the whole album is wonderful you fools

I often think House Of Cards is where we, the human race, finally solved the problem of guitar tone

Like, it really does not get any better

OTM

Let's settle this: Is he singing "Forget about your house of cards" as one would expect, or "Forget about your house and car"? Or something else?

Also TIL it's about swingers and not about the UK (and layer US, but we don't talk about that) political drama. Except at this party when you put your keys in the bowl, whoever fishes them out gets to keep your house and your car. Weird Fishes also refers to the keys "swimming" around in the bowl. The whole album is about a high risk swingers party

Hahaha!

At last, "because we separate like ripples on a blank shore" makes sense. Concept albums for the win.

Also, I'm with matttkkkk, I wouldn't dream of skipping a thing on here. It's even difficult not to cue up Disc 2 right after a listen to Disc 1.

Also, few things say "In Rainbows" to me like the guitar coming in at 0:41 of 15 Step.

And I've always loved the symmetry of how digital drums morph into (/ are joined by?) organic drums at the beginning of the first song, and organic drums morph into (/are joined by?) digital drums at the end of the last song.

A 5/4 song that positively flowed with no hiccups or bumps really blew me away when I first put this on. I was probably 14? Had just decided maybe I would "get into music" (lol). Lots of car rides to school putting my burnt CD-r on while my mum asked me probing question such as "why are you listening to this?" "do you enjoy this?" "maybe we could put the radio on". Would listen to it mowing my grandpas lawn, Thom's high pitches just cutting through between the deep frequencies of the lawn mower. I had some theory that this album was actually a concept album telling the story of Goethe's Faust (15 step - pull of Mephistopheles, Bodysnatchers - possession, Nude - depression, eck set er a, eck set er a). Tbh, listening back to it, 15yo me was otm. The lyrics to all these tracks easily fit with a dialogue with "The Devil". This album was formative for me, and not a bad one to be formed by

I cut my teeth on the guitar with this album. Remember being blown away showing a friend in the grade above me the 15 step tab and him just nailing it straight away while I suffered trying to hold a bar chord for it. Pushed me to practice and practice. Jigsaw was my introduction to open tunings which I have never really left. It also taught me that its not about hitting the notes, as I saw my school music teachers eyes glaze over with boredom as I fingerprinted the intro before quickly transitioning to a pick and some hard hitting to wake him back up. All I Need was quiet literally a teenage devotional for me. Walking back to class after playing soccer in lunch break I would discover I had a mental cassette player and would give myself goosebumps playing through my memory of Nude (The National Anthem was also heavily on mental rotation, mostly in the car when my mum finally won out on putting the radio on). This album developed the few essential skills and desires which directly lead me to a career that held me steady through my 20s. Maybe another album would have done the same in another world with another person, but this one was mine.

Lovely post H.P.

I think I've said "I want the drums to sound like "Reckoner"" more often than I've said it about any other song.

i think those drums and those of "new grass" by talk talk exist in the same drum world

I’d like to respond to the comments about the quieter songs lacking tension, by saying they are even more unsettling than the cranked up ones for me. “All I Need” is a great example, “House of Cards” too.
And H.P I’m sorry to brag but the guitar tone on that song is almost exactly how my 80s Squier Tele Custom sounds on its ersatz wide range humbucker through my little Vox. I often play it just to listen to it.

Awesome Matt. I picked up my D'Angelico Deluxe Bedford sh, Five-Twos neck middle and mini-humbucker bridge, plugged into my Orange Rockerverb 100W, and gave House of Cards a play last night. Close enough in tone for me, beautiful song

Just for fun I thought I'd have a go at doing a quick acoustic cover of 'Nude'. It's fun to sing and play https://soundcloud.com/charlieframe/nude

I think I've said "I want the drums to sound like "Reckoner"" more often than I've said it about any other song

I lied, and I woke up bothered by this lie— the actual #1 is The Creatures “Sky Train” but “Reckoner” has been referenced more than once

I think what people like about the Reckoner drums must have a whole lot to do with the tambourine, it's so hard to record and mix tambo well if you're trying to get both the jingles and the head sound, and to find a place for those lower frequencies in the mix. Love the panning and how the tambourine gets so much space to itself, and the reverb of course. I think I remember from that podcast that the drums themselves are heavily chopped up too?

its a killer loop to me, would guess they were inspired by Squarepusher circa Music is Rotted One Note, and Nigel is a hell of an engineer.

My first thought hearing Reckoner is that it reminded a lot of Sebastien Tellier’s La Ritournelle. And you can’t have enough of a good thing so I love them both.

Also my second favorite song sound-wise was All I Need and I got a Boards of Canada vibe from it.

Today has been a good day (the most perfect day, even) for Bodysnatchers and Bangers + Mash on repeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmG3OW5HvIQ

the reckoner drums are very much chopped up loops yeah but it's funny because it's not very noticeable at all except when isolated

Huh isolated you can hear a weird chop at 1:10 and just double-checked on the full version and it’s definitely there. I wont stop noticing it now.

it's from the isolated tracks they put out for a remix contest

What’s cool to me about the Reckoner drums isn’t the splicing but the mix— Nigel on most of his mixes seems to only have three places for things, left right or centre— but the stereo spring reverb is allowed to bloom in the stereo field so the hard panned elements resonate inward, not outward, gluing these panned elements together. It’s absolutely magical.

Great observation! It also papers over all those janky edits, which I find endearing anyway.

Yeah I can't immediately intuit how one would get a reverb to "trail inward" (unless it's a natural result of running hard-panned drums through a stereo-wired spring) but it is an uncanny sound, like the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey in reverse

Not sure if this is what you mean, but if you put the reverb on a send instead of an insert you can control the panning independently, to me that's what it sounds like. I've done the opposite (dry center + panned verb) but very much want to try this now!

Yesh that sounds right. Hard pan the dry signal, but centre the wet - it's an interesting idea for a technique, especially for a loop with a lot of space around it and a lot of high-mid

You can also play with the width of the stereo reverb, so it will be stereo but less wide than the dry, hard-panned tracks. Also it's fun to adjust the eq of just the sides of the stereo image (for instance the Logic Channel EQ has mid/side modes), which makes reverb seem to tuck inside because there's less high end on the edges.

I love those drums. Not tech y so the above posts mostly mean nothing to me but very glad to read them. It always sounded like a Fisher Price New Grass to me.

it's very hard to get a drum sound like that not to sound messy or washed-out. there's a particular drum sound i HATE HATE HATE and have often gone on about here (TKOL, actually, is a glaring example, but also a lot of late-2000s Amerindie) where all the drums are thin and vaporous, like people clacking tiny sticks together then smothering it all in reverb. But the drums on that song do this, but PROPERLY

The two items of outboard effects gear I use at home are a rack of preamps and a terrific stereo spring reverb— I do all my EQ and compression and so forth in the box. I will try to figure out the Reckoner sound today I bet it’s actually something super simple. If not, I got those great Pan Pot plugins to do the work for me

I'd bet that drum sound we were discussing earlier was directly inspired by IZ-US by Aphex Twin

I’m probably clueless but “Warning Sign” by Talking Heads comes to mind when I hear “Reckoner”