Radiohead's In Rainbows: write the DiS review
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Perhaps you heard or, at least, felt the shockwave from all the jaws dropping across the music industry: Radiohead have a new album coming, soon, and the kids are doing it for themselves.
In Rainbows, their seventh full-length, is available as a download from October 10. As reported here, fans of the band can pre-order In Rainbows from here, and pay whatever they want for it; a physical version of the release – a ‘discbox’ – will be made available for £40 containing two LPs and two CDs. And it looks well nice, innit.
The digital release of In Rainbows is a seriously important event in the history of modern rock music, one that could alter perceptions on the selling of such ‘products’ in the twenty-first century, and DiS is to mark the arrival of Radiohead’s new baby with a unique review. We are offering readers the opportunity to form the ultimate review of In Rainbows. You’ve pre-ordered it as a download: now win yourself a discbox version of the album for submitting your personal take on In Rainbows. It’s dead simple:
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Get In Rainbows on October 10.
Listen to In Rainbows on October 10.
Submit your user review of In Rainbows in the traditional manner – click here.
Wait…
DiS will compile the best bits of our favourite user reviews and subsequently present the ultimate fans verdict. Every user whose review is used in some way in the final review will receive a discbox version of In Rainbows for their efforts. Which is pretty nice, likes: £40-worth of double-LP joy. Mmmm. Winners will be contacted through DiS’s note function, and discboxes will be sent out once we have them in December. (You must be registered with DiS to participate in this competition/review.)
In the meantime, what do you predict the new Radiohead album will sound like? Thom Yorke’s not exactly been quiet about it, referencing the band’s 1997 album OK Computer more than once, and live tracks are available online. But as a single piece of work, what are your predictions for In Rainbows? DiScuss…
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don't even get to sleep on it, huh?
i guess there'll be a lot of inaccurate-in-hindsight reviews then
Oh...
piss off.
x
My review :
another shit boring album by radiohead, but with a good publicist this time.
nah innaccurate-in-hindsight reviews
are the best
It's got Nude on it
aka Big Ideas
Ive been waiting a hell of a long time for a studio version, and if it sounds ANYTHING like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbXrdOwDlGc from their last tour, i'm going to be very very happy.
yep
the guy who thought giving the album for free was the best advert ever...
I'm sure the day they release the actual CD, it'll be their best seller so far...
ummm..
no.
x
Fuck. ive just listened to Nude again
its going to be immense
yeah
it was totally their label's ideaLOL
yeah
like their managing their website, that new boxset, their gigs all alone...
I seriously doubt he has heard it.
But who knows?
He is a sneak!
Oh yeah.
i've just realised he was probably being "funny".
I'm an idiot.
Oh Sean.
If only you knew.
*yet
This time next week, they will have.
XL?
Waddaya reckon...
doesn't mean
they don't have people working for/with them...
They have an excellent management team.
It's quite different to having a label.
Talking to someone last night...
...seems unlikely they're going to go with EMI. Which I thought might be most likely, but apparently not.
'A Big Indie', then.
Domino?
There's a lot of Warner talk
as one of their favourite staffers from Capitol is now over there.
Who knows though? Maybe it's coming out on Try Harder?
Ha ha...
...imagine Al's head: pop.
O RLY?
I wonder if Thom's voice will sound even more intolerable on this album than it did on their last three albums...
read what I wrote :
I never said they had a label.
Then Alccxk made a joke about a label.
Then I said they had people taking care of "their website, that new boxset, their gigs"
40 fucking quid!
surely nobody except the extremely hardcore fan is going to bother with this. for someone on minimum wage thats almost a whole days wage right?
and if you can download it for free too, thtat is just beyond silly.
What if the person says its rubbish?
It'll just go to one of the friends of the WRITERS, anyway.
unlikely they would sign with
mint records...home of p:ano and immaculate machine and bella amongst others. very unlikely, you would get good odds on that
Looks like they might
have got the idea for the download from Nigel Powell...
good idea
sadly The Sad Song Co. isn't very good...
Do we have to
post the review on the 10th as well then?
the bends
I hope it'll be more like that then say, something similar to hail to the thief or Kid A, having said that Kid A is one of my favourites. I think it'll be similar to hail to the thief, and whilst it'll still probably be very good (have I made my mind up already?) I think something in the style of the bends would probably make my day.
you'll hate me (you don't even know who I am, but you will;) ) but I think I'll end up, someday, forking out £40 for it.
but not any time soon.
screw the release date
I don't need no stinkin' facts. My review is posted.
something in the style of the Bends?
talk about pointless
No...
When enough quality copy is in, I will compile a review.
I would aim to have your review submitted by the 11th, though. It's more time than most 'proper' critics will have with this album.
the bends
is one of my all time favourite albums...
...it won't be though, (I mean in rainbows) if it's like nude (the version you put up before)
not that I've been listening to that pretty much all day...
I'm sorry
I gave that the required 10 seconds and nothing interesting happened. Bands these days, do they not know how to produce a demo?

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