{"id":1931,"date":"2011-03-20T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T16:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2011-03-20T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T16:53:22","slug":"radiohead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/radiohead\/","title":{"rendered":"RADIOHEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>R<\/strong>ADIOHEAD<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The King of Limbs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[TBD Records]<\/p>\n

There are two Radioheads, and there have been for some time now. One is a five-piece rock band from Oxfordshire, England, that is responsible for relatively straightforward modern classics like \u201cCreep\u201d and \u201cKarma Police.\u201d The other is a six-piece studio collective (including producer Nigel Godrich, an essential part of the team since 1997\u2019s landmark OK Computer<\/em>) that assembles complex, surreal sonic collages that frequently threaten to overwhelm the songs the other Radiohead comes up with. The two Radioheads have been involved in an epic power struggle for more than a decade now\u2014the studio collective won on 2000\u2019s Kid A<\/em>, the rock band seized control on 2003\u2019s Hail to the Thief<\/em> and the two seemed to have reached a d\u00e9tente on 2007\u2019s brilliant In Rainbows<\/em>.<\/p>\n

On The King of Limbs<\/em>, the studio collective once again wins out. The eight songs here are frequently overwhelmed by the dense soundscape of blips, beeps, glitches and skittering electronic drum patterns that has been conjured to essay them. Opener \u201cBloom\u201d proceeds from a Philip Glass-style keyboard pattern, seemingly assembling itself as it goes; \u201cFeral\u201d is little more than a drum pattern given an elaborate sonic going-over. The lyrical focus is on nature imagery, further pressing the conflict between technology and humanity that has been the group\u2019s primary theme for perhaps too long. The King of Limbs<\/em> is tautly satisfying on its own terms, but one wishes the rock band Radiohead would peek out a bit more often. \u2013Chris Neal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RADIOHEAD The King of Limbs [TBD Records] There are two Radioheads, and there have been for some time now. One is a five-piece rock band from Oxfordshire, England, that is responsible for relatively straightforward modern classics like \u201cCreep\u201d and \u201cKarma Police.\u201d The other is a six-piece studio collective (including producer Nigel Godrich, an essential part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1475,1059,1186,1474,1473,1472],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}