by King Of Limbs on July 10, 2011
Radiohead haven’t done much to promote their latest album The King Of Limbs. They took the approach of releasing the music as soon as it’s ready and see how things turn out. Surprise set at Glastonbury a few weeks ago and the Live From The Basement session are the only live performances of their latest album.
From The Basement sessions, produced by no other than Radiohead’s 6th member Nigel Godrich, are true gems among live acts. This time it’s no different. If you haven’t been convinced by the studio album of TKOL, give it another shot by watching the live recording below. It’s one of the best performances Radiohead have ever done.
http://youtu.be/qpMJzgH3r9o
UPDATE: As expected, BBC has pulled down the video from YouTube. The HD torrent is already floating around http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6533907
by King Of Limbs on May 2, 2011
Stanley Donwood did an interview for Pitchfork where he talks about the inspiration for The King Of Limbs artwork.
In Rainbows was this big, heavy, substantial thing– if you were determined, you could have killed someone with it! It was very much a definitive statement, and that isn’t where the band are at the moment.
Where they are now is more transitory. When a newspaper comes out, that doesn’t mean news stops, what you have is just a snapshot of how things were at the moment that newspaper was printed.
And similarly, this album shows where Radiohead are at the moment the record was released. The music is a continuing thing. And we wanted to make the album representative of that.
Read the whole interview on Pitchfork.
by King Of Limbs on April 27, 2011
The release date of the newspaper album (May 9th, 2011) is still some 2 weeks away but we already got first photos of the artwork. Enjoy!
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by King Of Limbs on April 5, 2011
Stanley Donwood
Stanley Donwood wrote a column for NME where he talks about the idea behind the newspaper album and reveals that the newspaper will have 36 pages. The idea of publishing newspaper along with the album was born sometimes in summer last year at the Oxford Circus tube station:
The newspaper thing began some months previously, in the summer. I’d left a newspaper on a bench in the sun, and when I returned to get it a few hours later it had already begun its inevitable decay; the paper had rippled slightly, the whiteness was yellowing, and it was feeling more brittle and delicate than it had before. I thought that this constituted a wonderful medium.
As Stanley says, newspaper is like a snapshot of the current events in the world. Something similar goes for the recent releases of Radiohead. They are trying to deliver music to the fans as soon as it’s done. More music, more often. Shorter albums or EPs, snapshots of what they are into at this moment.
Do you like the idea of getting shorter releases more frequently or do you prefer full blown albums like OK Computer?
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by King Of Limbs on March 28, 2011
