While I love the premise of The King Of Limbs and most of its ideas, the songs themselves and the execution of those ideas feel hollow, mishandled; ultimately, the end product is shallow and lacks any real emotional or intellectual connection. As with their next album, the protracted wait between albums, the seeming lack of effort, and the general shoulder-shrugging-meh nature of the individual songs and the whole package leaves a sole, self-evident aura of laziness. There’s almost nothing here worth listening to more than a handful of times. As is consistently the case with Radiohead, these latter day songs take on a superior experience when played and heard live, but then you have to deal with sweaty Radiohead obsessives and morons shouting ‘CREEP’!
- Give Up The Ghost
- Codex
- Morning Mr Magpie
- Little By Little
- Lotus Flower
- Seperator
- Bloom
- Feral
Let us know in the comments what you think of The King Of Limbs!
That album fascinated me at the time of release. I can barely be bothered to listen to anything on it these days if the tracks come up on shuffle. The packaging was all interesting though
That’s it; it’s still Radiohead and you know they’re going to do something, but after a few listens there’s much to care about