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| In Rainbows | 
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| Artist: Radiohead
Label: XL
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
Buy New: £7.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  119 reviews
Sales Rank: 265
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.2
UPC: 634904032425
EAN: 0634904032425
ASIN: B000YIXBVI
Release Date: December 31, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Utterly essential return to form October 9, 2008
Easily their best since OK Computer, this melds the 'old' Radiohead power with the new, technologically-aware approach debuted on Kid A. They push the boundaries, but for the first time since OK Computer, Yorke & Co pull back from the boundary, remembering that the song is the key thing!
For me,the highlights are "Reckoner", in which Yorke's falsetto overlays an almost 60s sounding sweep of beauty, and "House of Cards", a bitter, amoral plea to a married lover (IMHO)
Wonderful stuff. I even like "15 steps"!
easily the best since ok computer, ignore the attention seeking one star reviews October 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'll be the first to admit at being sceptical about radioheads departure into experimental territory, leaving behind the masterpieces of bends\ok. The first listen of kid A was a shock to the system but now it's one of my favourites, but things have really clicked, on in rainbows, it's a more stripped down and directsounding album with some truely amazing moments, and works much better as a whole than the previous album. It's rare to find a band that have the ability to constantly evolve and find new musical territory. "All i need" could of come straight of the soundtrack for requiem to a dream, theres that sense of disspair with a glint at the end of the tunnel. In short get yourself a good hi-fi, turn the lights out and let in-rainbows take you on a mind trip, you won't regret it. in-rainbows is a future classic.
 Like whistling in your trousers September 19, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This album is one hundred per cent 'rudge'. I got so totally twisted when listening to it for what must have been the first time, that I almost soiled my armour. All the tracks here knock into each other and continue to do so long after you have gone to bed. Each time I hear track 4 and track 7 I feel like I have been lightly dusted and left out for the dustman. Crazy! And that's not all.
Radiohead's ''Revolver'' September 13, 2008
Ten years after releasing probably the greatest album of the 90s, Radiohead released probably the greatest album of the 00s. In all seriousness, these guys are the closest we've come to a second Beatles. This is now my favourite album by them, and possibly by anyone.
If you are yet to own a Radiohead album, make it this one. If you haven't liked their previous efforts, give them one last chance. In Rainbows is the band's most accessible collection of songs so far, packed with delicious melodies. Not that they've ever been as impenetrable and pretentious as some people have suggested - their songs rarely exceed five minutes and usually have an identifiable chorus (Kid A and Amnesiac excepted).
Standout tracks? Weird Fishes and Videotape are the two I like most, but this is one of those albums where every track has little moments that you love. Don't listen to the hype - just buy it and you won't be disappointed.
the perfect body of music September 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this album is amazing it has stunning production and is beautifully layered music that you can't stop listening to. anyone who simply puts this on in the background is doing it an injustice. lock yourself in a room and put this album on nice and loud and just listen. the music simple absorbs and grabs you, the progression from song to song means the album feels like one cohesive body of work but is defiantly not "samey". some people say this album is radiohead reconnecting with there human side and you can see why in the way it grabs your head and heart it simply sucks you in and drags you away to a musical fantasy, if you ever need a way to disconnect from real life, in rainbow is the answer.
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