Album Rating: 3.0
'I always thought tracks 2/3/4 of TKOL was a career worst stretch and the rest merely okay. The idea that it wasn’t a massive disappointment after IR is baffling to me'
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I wasn't as disappointed as I was with Amnesiac following the mighty Ok Computer/Kid A double...but it was similar. Just felt a toss off with three, maybe four, keepers.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I still need to really figure out what I think of Pool cuz tbf that’s kind of like an alternate universe where they did the opposite of TKOL
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Album Rating: 4.5
yes go run to rym to validate your vanilla ears lmao
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Album Rating: 3.0
???
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Album Rating: 4.5
a moon shaped poo
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Album Rating: 4.0
i love the messy off kilter grooves of magpie and feral, even if they aren't in the upper echelon of RH **songs**, they are rhythmically and texturally very interesting. feral especially i'd put above any of the "abstract" songs from amnesiac, love when the bassline finally comes in halfway through. i think TKOL is the first time they truly merged their electronic inclinations with standard rock instrumentation, which was always somewhat disparate on previous albums
also climbing up the walls as worst OKC song is a wild take
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big ol 100-emoji to all of that, Feral feels like a real advancement on a few of the doors they opened here and is every bit the worthy pleb filter people wish Pulk/Pull could be. heavily underrated track
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Album Rating: 3.0
Feral sounds like a Yorke solo song on a Radiohead album, so a bit goofy sounding in that context after two less than amazing but stylistically unified tunes.
It's fine it just does it's thing but sounds like it's operating in a bit of an island.
It's only as much of a pleb filter for Radiohead fans as Yorke solo material.
There's not a lot to get your teeth stuck into with it, it is 3 minutes of pleasant glitch n' waft.
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Feral is legit one of the best tracks on TKOL. It's between that, Bloom, and Lotus Flower anyway.
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Also:
1. Kid A
2. OKC
3. Amnesiac
4. In Rainbows
5. Moon Shaped Poop
6. TKOL
7. Hail to the QUeef
8. Bends
9. Pablo
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Album Rating: 3.0
Listening to 'Climbing' now and it is still very good...it is a little overshadowed by the fact 'Mezzanine' ran with those atmospherics and built a whole world out of them the next year. Been listening to '100th Window' too recently and again, you hear that, must be one of Del Naja's favourite songs at the time.
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Album Rating: 4.0
it's gotta be bloom for me, might even be my favorite RH track
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Album Rating: 3.0
Bloom, Lotus Flower and Separator are very good - rest of KoL is mid tier for various reasons.
Give Up the Ghost, Codex and Feral are nice mood pieces though.
If it was a 12 song/50+ minute album they’d have been fine as ‘making up the numbers’ tracks no doubt.
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Album Rating: 4.0
wow lotus flower goes hard doof
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Album Rating: 3.0
Yeah, Lotus Flower is prob my fave on it.
Basically if you had another three songs as good as Bloom/Lotus/Separator on KoL then I'd forgive the other songs being 'lesser' and it would be a 4 star album etc
As it is I always think the album is a bit like a 'sorbet course' between two more fleshed out albums.
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Album Rating: 4.0
i actually think that is a good description for it lol. i just love that kinda chill and sparse vibe. relaxing for me. used to listen to it a lot when studying in college so i got a soft spot for it.
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Album Rating: 4.0
climactic knows things. TKOL has some very interesting textural elements and off-kilter, yet confident song-writing
onion knows his onions too but is hell bent on making someone cry instead, unnecessarily cutting there, lmao
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Album Rating: 4.0
little late to the party and only getting into Amnesiac now but damn after 2 spins this feels even better than Kid A
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yup
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Album Rating: 4.0
Kid A has higher highs but this has always been more consistent for me
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