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Review: Radiohead- Hail To The Thief

Radiohead, the Oxford-based British quintet that is the most consistently provocative rock band on the planet is back with yet another example of their amazing talents. On the surface this appears to be just another album but within Radiohead's Hail to the Thief, there is a story.
Evil agents work overtime trying to capture the thoughts running through the head of the last individualist in a colony of worker drones. When the rebel holdout - vocalist and lyricist Thom Yorke, in something of a recurring role - discovers he's being monitored, he concocts a typically subversive response: He begins to think in junk scrambles.
He repeats himself constantly, the words, as if they were rosary beads, finding comfort in the repetition. He follows harmless thoughts with faithful vows such as "I will eat you alive."
He doesn't try to make sense - in fact, he delights in being elusive with the facts. He emits psychobabble such as "Just because you feel it, doesn't mean it's there" as if they're words to live by.
You can guess how this fantasy ends knowing their past offerings. Abruptly. Nothing's resolved, everything's a mess.
It's impossible to tell whether the bad guys are real or just hanging out in Yorke's brain. And abandon hope of figuring out what it all signifies because its simply impossible. Instead feel as if no answer could be good enough and that the feeling of this album is more of a drug that you can't stop taking because it feels so damn good.
Of course that's the long-standing charge against Radiohead. And it's one reason some will dismiss the disturbing Hail to the Thief but I urge you to give it a chance in the context it deserves, your undivided attention because these songs can hold whatever kind of wonder the listener pours into them.

Rating 5 out of 5 stars

Stand Out Tracks:

1) Sit Down. Stand Up
2) Go to Sleep
3) Myxomatosis
4) Sail To The Moon
5) Backdrifts

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it's an amazing album, i have to agree.

I thought it was merely "bloody good" when i heard it the first time, but it rocks like no other radiohead album, it's their best yet. not a bad track on it, but that's always been one of their strengths - consistency.

Wow!

i had never heard RH before and i picked up this album. i have a new favorite band.

9/10 stars!

enjoi

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holy crap?!?!?

live on venus or something ? :P

personally, i diddn't dig this one too much, seems like a step backwards to me, but i'm not a true RH fan...my girl loves it though...

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Originally posted by bryehn
holy crap?!?!?

live on venus or something ? :P

personally, i diddn't dig this one too much, seems like a step backwards to me, but i'm not a true RH fan...my girl loves it though...

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I finally gave this a listen while driving and I have to say, it's one of the best albums I've heard, ever. I'd even put it on my Desert Island list. I kinda liked the mainstream-ish songs on the album (not mainstream, just ones I could actually put on a mix and listen to alone)
My Favorites:
1) 2 + 2 = 5
2) Go to Sleep
3) There There
4) Wolf at the Door
and 5) Myxamatosis