Radiohead
The King of limbs
Disco evento
“The King of limbs, "is not just, as you well know, the last album of Radiohead, the British group, survived the nineties, hanging at half mast between rock and electronica. It 's a real event, to understand it does not take much, just take a peek at the web world. On various webzines, on many social networks (facebook, twitter) chasing the first rumors, the video appears on youtube of the first extract "Lotus Flower", the protagonist of the scene with a brand new Thom Yorke, dressed as a dancer unleashed, almost tarantula. Who would have thought. But in the end it is not surprising that much, the premises were all already. Even at the release of "In Rainbows", Radiohead had displaced the public, professionals, the mechanisms record, making available the download of the record coming out on the official website. Given the success of the operation In 2007, the band will try again today to the gleam of 2011, there is only a small change in strategy, the price of the download is not a free choice of consumers, but was granted a range of departure, amounting to € 7. After this brief introduction, I'd say it's time to get into the music, nicely break up the deepest bowels of the King of limbs. " The album opens with "Bloom". An ambient start. The drum machine is in the foreground, intoxicating, repetitive, seductively conquering. In the distance, in the background, classical references, violins among gay and the melancholy and elusive opening characterized by fleeting piano melody, interrupted by a flurry of electronic echoes. Atmospheres nebulae, dark, enigmatic rage to become obsessive, disturbing. Whirlpools sound that is easy to get lost. Echo the vocal harmonies between fluctuating electrical rhythms ("Morning Mr. Magpie"). Rare rays of light illuminate the landscape, as if the moon had disappeared horizon. Among oriental scenes, glimpses creaking, fleeting guitar arpeggios, makes its way into a growing, full of pathos stregante the sigh of Yorke ("Little by little"). In the deepest dark, the guitar riffs captured by shifting sands, are now hostage to synthesizers and drum machines, the leading actors of the composition of the bottom line of the disc. But from the sounds of Scie intermittent sobs explode unexpectedly, between sea and mountains of decibels ("Feral"). Forget the past, electronic, having tasted the joy of the dancers pitfalls Lotus Flower (Lotus flower "), it is time to be lulled by the sweet-bitter ballads, then tone minimal space. No electronic device only voice and guitar / piano ("Codex", "Give up the ghost"). These are the new radiohead, poised between the coldness of embracing drum machines and acoustic intimacy.
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