Album Rating: 2.0

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Album Rating: 4.0

Mr Magpie is mid, I'm sorry, always was - kind of 'Packt like Sardines' but even less progression or impact



Feral is B-Side level and doesn't really sounds like it fits, not much better than the HTTT electronic track fails



Little By Little would be a weaker song on HTTT and is dull, some of Yorke's most unpleasant moan'y vocal melodies



Give Up the Ghost is pleasant but also a bit mid, this glorified EP can't carry an airy wafer mood piece



That's half the (short) album Jon



Codex is also non essential as it is 'Baby Pyramid Song'



As 'Radiohead classics' go 'Lotus Flower' isn't all that incredible, there's similar better stuff on In Rainbows for a start



That leaves a quite decent opener and closer



It is...what it is

Album Rating: 4.0

Time to get out the scalpel and dispel the myth

Album Rating: 4.0

"classic example of a Bends defender not knowing the meaning of filler"



You wouldn't know filler if it hit you smack in the face lmao

Album Rating: 2.5

Neither Feral nor Little By Little have any truly analogous songs on HTTT; both of them are easily distinct enough within Radiohead's discog that calling them 'filler' is just silly. Appreciate that the former is an enormous filter hazard for a chap who likes his choruses pedestrian and his glitch accompanied with a hefty dose of soppy guitar bathwater

on the other hand, having sat through the whole of this band's discog, I'm pretty sure my qualifications in filler are as updated as they need to be. hardly a single moment here that isn't interchangeable with something preferable from elsewhere

Album Rating: 4.0

Little By Little sounds like Go To Sleep with something up its butt to me - it's just got that 'mid' vibe, the vocals are not a high point in Yorke's oeuvre imo, in fact I think they kind of blow



I don't dislike the album but it has never amazed me - I get it is the most beat driven Radiohead...but they do sound a bit like a band not used to being 'beat driven' and most of the grooves get pretty played out long before they wrap up the song



'Reckoner' is better than 90% of the album, it's just...not bad.



I think Yorke's done better beat driven stuff solo at this point.

Album Rating: 2.5

exactly the kind of off-base comparison that gives away the superfluous level of takes at play here

Album Rating: 4.0

'Little By Little' it's just 'mid n' moan'y' level Radiohead to me - not a favourite but what can you do

Album Rating: 4.0

'Appreciate that the former is an enormous filter hazard for a chap who likes his choruses pedestrian and his glitch accompanied with a hefty dose of soppy guitar bathwater'



What does this mean - I only listen to electronic music with choruses? Or with guitars?



I rate 'ANIMA' higher than KoL and that's entirely bleep bloop. Be honest, 'Feral' wouldn't have stood out on that, Yorke's got way better at this stuff.

Album Rating: 3.5

Surprising, I thought KoL was pretty passionately defended on this site. Maybe it's just that thread. I mean even as someone who thinks the Live from the Basement version is way better, especially the song Bloom and for including the amazing b-side Staircase, the studio version is still a pretty great album. Like yeah Feral is kinda eh and Morning Mr. Magpie isn't anything special, but Lotus Flower, Little by Little, and the last three songs are wonderful. I don't think there are enough highlights on here that equal all of those.

Album Rating: 4.0

Seperator is amazing

Album Rating: 2.5

"not a favourite"

slowly learning the difference between preferential crit and filler, good

"What does this mean"

that a song called Feral is not something I'd put remotely within your wheelhouse - closest thing I've seen you rep to that kind of abstracted glitch is Fennesz (whose instrumentation and stylings are p much catnip for sentimentalist indie wash)

Album Rating: 4.0

Johnny I’m pretty sure I’ve listened to more glitch or abstract electronic than just Fennesz, if you want to generalise my electronic ratings at least check them on RYM first



As I said, you don’t need to go far, just the Yorke solo stuff will be an easy comparison- Feral isn’t a horrible track and it didn’t make me spit out my coffee with surprise at the bleep, it’s just innocuous and unremarkable



I do love this place though - user only likes album other user loves, prepare for war

Album Rating: 4.5

I think this is the bollocks

Rating will go up at some point

Album Rating: 2.5

if you want to make a case for why that sound/style is something I should be trusting your takes on feel free - says a lot about a guy for his first line of recourse to be trawl my rym profile to understand me better

+ v much hope you have a better response in store than a take-it-or-leave-it list of whatever material you've duly binged for no meaningful reason

Album Rating: 4.0

Johnny acting like you should trust his takes lol

Album Rating: 2.5

why do all your comments reek of day-old spilt milk

Album Rating: 4.5

John knows his stuff but does like a lorry load of gash

Album Rating: 4.0

I think Jonny attacking anyone for displaying 'preferential crit' is a bit rich but always a fun sparring partner



Before I arrived on Sput I'd be hard pressed to think of an album I had less extreme opinions about than 'King of Limbs' but now I've been pressed into doing a '3 rating hatchet job' on the thing a few times here

Album Rating: 2.5

preferential crit is good and fine - but pretending that anything falls foul there gets lumped in as 'filler' is silly. world of difference between mediocre tracks and actual filler, however much they may overlap