In Rainbows

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Yorke, Thom (15 October 2006). "if you are concerned about climate change". Dead Air Space. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007 . Retrieved 14 October 2007. For three weeks in October 2006, Radiohead worked at Tottenham House in Marlborough, Wiltshire, a country house scouted by Godrich. The band members lived in caravans, as the building was in a state of disrepair. [2] Yorke described it as "derelict in the stricter sense of the word, where there's holes in the floor, rain coming through the ceilings, half the window panes missing ... There were places you just basically didn't go. It definitely had an effect. It had some pretty strange vibes." [11] The sessions were productive and the band recorded " Jigsaw Falling into Place" and " Bodysnatchers". [9] Yorke wrote on Dead Air Space that Radiohead had "started the record properly now ... starting to get somewhere I think. Finally." [14] Radiohead used several guitars borrowed from the guitarist Johnny Marr, including a 1957 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top and a 1964 Gibson SG. [15] Colin Greenwood contracted temporary hearing loss and tinnitus brought upon by faulty headphones. [16]

Brown, Jonathan (11 October 2007). "Radiohead album goes live on the internet". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 19 May 2008 . Retrieved 21 October 2007. Waniata, Ryan (23 April 2017). "Radiohead started a sonic revolution 25 years ago, and is still leading it". Digital Trends . Retrieved 12 June 2020. a b c Buskirk, Eliot Van (31 July 2008). "New In Rainbows numbers offer lessons for music industry". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 9 April 2017 . Retrieved 6 January 2020.American album certifications – Radiohead – In Rainbows". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 14 November 2017. a b Smyth, David (5 October 2007). "Off the Record– Radiohead are right on the money". Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014 . Retrieved 26 October 2007. The brilliant In Rainbows represents no such thing. Nonetheless, it's a very different kind of Radiohead record. Liberated from their self-imposed pressure to innovate, they sound-- for the first time in ages-- user-friendly; the glacial distance that characterized their previous records melted away by dollops of reverb, strings, and melody. From the inclusion and faithful rendering of longtime fan favorite "Nude" to the classic pop string accents on "Faust Arp" to the uncharacteristically relaxed "House of Cards", Radiohead's sudden willingness to embrace their capacity for uncomplicated beauty might be In Rainbows' most distinguishing quality, and one of the primary reasons it's an improvement on Hail to the Thief. Finn, Rachel (25 March 2019). "Out Of The Blue: A Brief History Of The Surprise Album". DIY . Retrieved 28 July 2020. After I heard In Rainbows (Disk 2), I felt kinda bad for liking disk 2 more than the original in rainbows due to it's overall rating and reputation.

In 2011, The Rolling Stone Album Guide described In Rainbows as Radiohead's "most expansive and seductive album, possibly their all-time high". [139] In 2023, Selway said it was his favourite Radiohead album. He said it combined "everything that we'd been learning over two decades, and it seemed to land in quite a concise way ... It feels like a band that have learned to play their instruments together but have been able to spend long enough doing that so the playing reaches a new level." [140] Accolades [ edit ] Jones, Lucy (27 September 2013). "Stanley Donwood on the stories behind his Radiohead album covers". NME . Retrieved 19 August 2022.

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Brandle, Lars (18 October 2007). "Radiohead Returning to the Road In 2008". Billboard. Archived from the original on 8 February 2008 . Retrieved 19 October 2007. a b Pytlik, Mark (15 October 2007). "Radiohead: In Rainbows". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 21 July 2014 . Retrieved 17 July 2014.ARIA Top 100 Albums for 2008". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 16 November 2021.

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Impala Sales Award Winner June 2005 – January 2008" (PDF). Impala. 3 December 2008. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 August 2018 . Retrieved 9 July 2019. The release also drew criticism. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails thought it did not go far enough, and accused Radiohead of using a compressed digital release as a bait-and-switch to promote a traditional record sale. Reznor released his sixth album, Ghosts I–IV, under a Creative Commons licence the following year. [65] The singer Lily Allen said the release was "arrogant" and sent a bad message to less successful acts, saying: "You don't choose how to pay for eggs. Why should it be different for music?" [66] The Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon said the release "seemed really community-oriented, but it wasn't catered towards their musician brothers and sisters, who don't sell as many records [as Radiohead]. It makes everyone else look bad for not offering their music for whatever." [67] The Guardian journalist Will Hodgkinson argued that Radiohead had made it impossible for less successful musicians to make a living from their music. [68] Piracy [ edit ] Radiohead News– 2008 Mercury Music Prize Nominees Announced". idiomag. 24 July 2008. Archived from the original on 2 January 2009 . Retrieved 30 December 2008. Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". Rolling Stone. 2012. Archived from the original on 21 April 2019 . Retrieved 9 September 2019. In 2004, after finishing the world tour for their sixth studio album, Hail to the Thief (2003), Radiohead went on hiatus. As Hail to the Thief was the final album released under their record contract with EMI, they had no contractual obligation to release new material. [1] The drummer, Philip Selway, said Radiohead still wanted to create music, but took a break to focus on other areas of their lives, and that the end of their contract provided a natural point to pause and reflect. [2] The New York Times described Radiohead as "by far the world's most popular unsigned band". [1]