Tag: Kid A
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Kid A by Radiohead – Essentiality Review
Succintly is not a way someone could describe Radiohead’s career; one of the most succesful and well-renowned bands of the 21st century. Trying to do it with Kid A certainly isn’t an easy task either. Anyway, I’ll try: The fourth album of the Oxford quintet is the one left-turn of an already beloved rock band…
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Kid-ays: ‘It’s not like the movies…’
‘Motion Picture Soundtrack’ is an ending song. The track sends-off Kid A with quite the opposite of a bang, however it is still quite a grand finale with its mellow organs, awe-inspiring harps and overall sorrowful atmosphere. The song is inherently sad but it’s a different kind of deep and beating emotion. The one that…
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Kid-ays: ‘Everybody wants to be a friend…’
‘Morning Bell’ has a unique place in Kid A. Coming just after the most recognizable track in the album and before the sweeping closer. It is also the only song that was presented in a different form in Amnesiac, an album composed mostly of Kid A‘s outtakes despite being released as its successor. The song…
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Kid-ays: ‘Throw it in the fire…’
If there’s a clear meaning for the definitive composition of Kid A is: utter paranoia. ‘Idioteque’ is the quintessential track of the album. A song that fully embraces the beat-driven, synth drenched electronics and also dwells in the fear-inducing realities in our war-leaning and technology-flooding world. The paradox here is that Thom Yorke’s voice is…
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Kid-ays: ‘This beautiful world…’
‘In Limbo’ despite being sonically wider, sounds more like an interlude than ‘Treefingers’. It treads the same territory that ‘Faust Arp’ would, 7 years later on ‘In Rainbows’. That specific trait may have something to do with the fact that the song lands between the two most recognized songs in Kid A. I once read…
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Kid-ays: ‘Float around on a prison ship…’
After a compelling start, Kid A reaches a more straightforward approach in the middle. That’s not to say it gets boring, quite the opposite, the next two songs check even more boxes when it come to adding sounds to the album. However they way they do it is uniquely simple. ‘Treefingers’ is the outlier amongst…
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Kid-ays: ‘The moment’s already past…’
Radiohead is a band known for their ability to successfully strive for beauty. When they commit themselves to craft a song that is blatantly gorgeous it is rare that they fail. In Kid A, earlier in the album than you might expect, comes ‘How to Disappear Completely’ one of the quintet’s most poignant exemplars of…
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Kid-ays: ‘Everyone has got the fear…’
‘The National Anthem’ is one song that proves that Radiohead can, even among a dystopian collection of electronic drenched tracks, get funky. And it’s still chillingly alienated funk. The song’s opening bassline is one of the most recognizable intros of any song from the band and even more so its disruptive addition of a brass…
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Kid-Ays: ‘What is that you tried to say?’
In the first year of this blog, Radiohead’s Ok Computer celebrated its 20th year of existence and I made a major feature in which I wrote a song-by-song review every Friday up to the anniversary of its release, which landed on a Friday, (Editor’s note: ‘On a Friday’ is the original name of Radiohead. Funny,…