Radiohead - Hail To The Thief

Artist:

Radiohead

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Description:

Radiohead: Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, programming); Ed O`Brien (vocals, guitar, sound effects); Jonny Greenwood (guitar, toy piano, glockenspiel, programming, samples); Colin Greenwood (synthesizer, bass, samples); Philip Selway (drums, percussion).
Principally recorded at Ocean Way, Hollywood, California.
HAIL TO THE THIEF won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album and for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. "There There" was nominated for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.
Not since the Beatles has a group managed to combine mass popularity and cutting-edge aesthetic triumphs so consistently as Radiohead, who by the time of HAIL TO THE THIEF had been on a roll since 1997`s OK COMPUTER (as great as THE BENDS was, it didn`t garner the band mainstream attention). While KID A and AMNESIAC had been outre, boundary-pushing attempts to expand the pop-rock palette even beyond the ambitious OK COMPUTER, HAIL TO THE THIEF incorporates the avant-garde techniques developed in that journey, applying them to more formal song structures. In this way, we get the best of both worlds on what just might be Radiohead`s best album yet.
Though this isn`t a return to the straight-ahead pop structures of THE BENDS, the guitar does make a welcome return here. There are plenty of glitchy electronics and atmospheric keyboards, etc., but they`re integrated with traditional "rock" instrumentation" in a completely organic way. Though they remain art-rockers to the end, with Thom Yorke expressing carefully wrought angst both personal and political, Radiohead injects some blood into things as well. The occasional hard-grooving funk rhythm and crazed rock guitar riff keeps even the airiest sentiments well anchored, making HAIL TO THE THIEF as well balanced as it is progressive.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm)
2. Sit Down. Stand up (Snakes & Ladders)
3. Sail to the Moon (Brush the Cobwebs Out of the Sky)
4. Backdrifts (Honeymoon Is Over)
5. Go to Sleep (Little Man Being Erased)
6. Where I End and You Begin (The Sky Is Falling in)
7. We Suck Young Blood (Your Time Is up)
8. Gloaming, The (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold)
9. There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)
10. I Will (No Man`s Land)
11. Punch-up at a Wedding, A (No No No No No No No No)
12. Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Executioner)
13. Scatterbrain (As Dead as Leaves)
14. Wolf at the Door, A (It Girl. Rag Doll)

Album Information

Release Date:

06/10/2003

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Brit Pop

Label:

Capitol/EMI Records

Producer:

Nigel Godrich

Catalog Number:

84543

Original Release Year:

2003

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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