The King Of Limbs
by Radiohead

From Strangel TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/17/2016 13:04 | #178573 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I've read some reviews describing this album as lacking in warmth, or too distant from their roots as a 5-piece rock outfit, or too much of a Thom Yorke project. Yet, I truly find KoL to be an incredibly intimate album that rewards full immersion with headphones. It is also a real tribute to the artistic flexibility of each member to be able to work so cohesively to enhance each track with their more subtle contributions. Much like with In Rainbows, The King of Limbs shines in their 'In the Basement' session. Watch the YouTube recording of this session to see just how brilliant these tracks really are. You'll come away with a whole new respect for what they have created. Once viewing this you realise that it is a mistake to think that much of the album as 'just' electronic. Instead it is driven by a cohesive, percussive tapestry. It is an album that showcases rhythm as its driving influence.

Sure, it suffers a little for not having the 'fullness' of sound that they are capable of but I just love their willingness to explore new territory. I find myself returning to this album time and again on my train commute as it works so well when closing out the world around.

ALBUM HIGHLIGHTS: For sheer transcendent beauty; Codex, which needs more recognition as a Radiohead classic.
For the audiophiles who love masterful layers of cacophonous instrumentation; Bloom - it will have your mind swirling.

From NubbinBased 03/17/2013 20:07 | #68732 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

The most underrated Radiohead album. The way they blend elements from all of their previous albums is fantastic. Pitchfork isn't the ambassador of music, this is one of their best albums.

6 really great tracks including some of the most beautiful music ever written in Lotus Flower, Bloom, Codex, Little By Little, Give Up the Ghost, and Separator. Feral is too short to fault the album for.

unfortunately, it's only 37 mins long but they released 4 songs as singles the same year - Supercollider, The Butcher, Staircase, and The Daily Mail. if they waited to release the album until those songs were finished and included them on here, this would be up there with Hail to the Thief. I'm still looking forward to an extended or deluxe edition with those songs on it.

listen with the lyrics in front of you, it'll help you keep focus and prevent it from going over your head. after you've done that enough times to know what he's saying w/o the lyric sheet, if you still don't like it, then rag on it. but I don't think anyone who criticizes this has given it a decent listen.

trying to think of a more beautiful album, I can only come up with Van Morrison's Astral Weeks as a contender. stupidly underrated.

Underrated. This isn't as bad as people make it out to be, but In Rainbows was a masterpiece, so it was extremely hard to follow it up. If this was released after Hail To The Thief, people probably wouldn't hate it as much. It really isn't that terrible. If you listen to it, listen to it with an open mind. Pretend like no one ever told you anything about this album. GIVE IT A CHANCE.

In my opinion the worst Radiohead Album ever. Altough i do apreciate them continuing to create music and the album does have some moments, i have stopped expecting anything from them. Everything they do now sounds like a B-side songs from Hail to the Thief...