Radiohead Amnesiac limited special edition cd and luxe book

Limited edition includes: *clothbound book with embossed logo *exclusive 32 page booklet. The booklet looks like a library book but is only designed to look like this. 



More song-driven and acoustic than kid a, radiohead;s amnesiac isn;t quite ;kid b,; but it is unquestionably cut from the same far-out cloth, as the band revels in fascinating quirks and abject nihilism. It;s also the first time in radiohead;s career that a new record hasn;t meant a complete shift in artistic priorities. Surely, however, regardless of which was released first, they both deserve recognition; after all, amnesiac, like kid a, is an amazing piece of work. Only lightly augmented with electronics, songs like ;you and whose army?; And ;i might be wrong almost sound like they came from a typical five-piece rock band. You may even believe the band still employs a guitarist after hearing jonny greenwood;s wistful surf-guitar lead on ;knives out; or his subtle but noticeable contributions to the anticapitalist rant ;dollars and cents.; But inevitably, the band continually shifts gears, moving into boards of canada territory on ;like spinning plates; and delivering dark, bass-laden oddities like pulk/pull revolving doors,; a fuzzed-out piece of avant-garde techno that could just as easily be on an autechre or aphex twin record.



The song;s half-sung, half-spoken vocal was laid down by either a heavily distorted thom yorke or, just perhaps, a loquacious microwave oven. Either way, the music always has momentum, regardless of whether propelled by man or appliance. Radiohead as a band understand how to make rock interesting again, and in the end, that;s all they set out to do when they recorded amnesiac, as well as kid a. It;s more than can be said for the bad frat-punk, teen-pop and soulless techno that currently rules the charts, and for that alone, radiohead;s astonishing exploration of 21st-century anguish deserves credit.