Radioheads Limbs

Once again I have delayed blogging for a month.  I give my most sincere apologies for this.  I blame it on excess laziness.  I could get into a whole discussion about this, but I will spare you.  I want to talk about Radiohead's newest album, The King of Limbs.  If you are familiar with Radiohead, you will understand what I am about to say.  If Kid A, Amnesiac, and maybe Hail to the Thief had a baby, the result may be the King of Limbs.  This is how my friend Eian and I described it the other day.  The album opens up with "Bloom," which opens with a smooth piano and then proceeds to add layering of electronic beats that bring us back to Kid A and of course Thom Yorke's vocals.  The first half of the album had this general formula, chill, calm, yet extremely enjoyable.  This changes with "Lotus Flower."  Yorke digs into his emotions, singing "There's an empty space inside my heart where the weeds stay root."  Overall, the album is a great one, but nothing over the top.  I think at this point, that's what Radiohead was going for.  It's an enjoyable album to sit back and relax to.  It may not have the critical success that say "Ok Computer" had, but at this point I don't think that's what they want (or ever wanted for that matter). 
Check out the video for Lotus Flower

-E-steam