RADIOHEAD – KING OF LIMBS

Description

‘the king of limbs’ is radiohead’s successor to 2007’s game-changing ‘inrainbows’. once again it’s produced by nigel godrich and the eighttracks pulse with energy and atmosphere right from the opening jitteryrhythms of ‘bloom’. percussive, groovy, spacious, ethereal and melodic,this is late night radiohead, a stoned, somnambulistic wander throughthe urban wastelands shared by such post-dubstep adventurers as burialand james blake. taking the tender intimacy of radiohead classics like’no surprises’ and ‘fake plastic trees’ and cross fertilising them withelements of world music, jazz and ambient, the result is the kind ofchill out music that keeps you awake. highly strung and instinctivelycontrary, but also deeply harmonically musical, radiohead somehow finds aspace between the sinister and the beautiful, the tense and themeditative. they remain masters of musical dichotomy.