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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelBqtx, XL Recordings
UPC0634904032418
eBay Product ID (ePID)27046036394
Product Key Features
Release Year2016
FormatRecord
GenreRock
ArtistRadiohead
Release TitleIn Rainbows
Dimensions
Item Height0.22 in
Item Weight0.75 lb
Item Length12.37 in
Item Width12.23 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks10
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 15 Step 3:57 1.2 Bodysnatchers 4:02 1.3 Nude 4:15 1.4 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi 5:18 1.5 All I Need 3:49 2.1 Faust Arp 2:10 2.2 Reckoner 4:50 2.3 House of Cards 5:28 2.4 Jigsaw Falling Into Place 4:09 2.5 Videotape 4:40
Number of Discs1
NotesIn Rainbows, as a title, implies a sense of comfort and delightfulness. Symbolically, rainbows are more likely to be associated with kittens and warm blankets than the grim and glum circumstances Radiohead is known for soundtracking. There's a slight, if expected, twist at play. The band is more than familiar with the unpleasant moods associated with colors like red, green, and blue - all of which, of course, are colors within a rainbow - all of which are present, and even mentioned, during the album. On a couple levels, then, In Rainbows is not any less fitting as a Radiohead album title than "Myxomatosis" as a Radiohead song title. The one aspect of the album that becomes increasingly perceptible with each listen is how romantic it feels, albeit in the way that one might find the bioport scenes in David Cronenberg's to be extremely hot and somewhat unsettling. Surprisingly, some of the album's lyrics are even more personal/universal and straightforward than anything on The Eraser, the album made by singer Thom Yorke and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich. The album is very song-oriented, with each track constantly moving forward and developing. Yet there are also abstract electronic layers and studio-as-instrument elements to prevent it from sounding like a regression. In Rainbows will be remembered as Radiohead's most stimulating synthesis of accessible songs and abstract sounds, rather than the world's first pick-your-price download.