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Yeah pretty much

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And they're also really good at that. It works every time.

The recognizability in the structures of a lot of their songs is what makes the experimentation so successful imo.

Album Rating: 5.0

The problem is they've retrospectively been labelled an experimental band that used to be rock



They're a rock band who started incorporating more experimental flavours

whenever someone asks me 'what kind of music' Radiohead makes, my go-to answer without devolving into a bullshit quasi-lesson on sub-sub-subgenres that can (and do) vary on an album-to-album basis is always "alt-rock".

Yeah I've started to look at RH as their own genre lol, their sound is too dynamic to really capture with labels at some point

Album Rating: 3.5

most great bands are their own genre

Album Rating: 4.5

So true

Album Rating: 5.0

what? they're straight up alt rock. literally the definition of it

Album Rating: 5.0

especially this album

Album Rating: 4.5

Half this album isn't even rock though. If anything, the Bends is the "especially this album" alt-rock album

Album Rating: 4.5

Whereas OK Computer firmly straddles the line between Alt Rock and Art Rock and imo they don't really move much closer back to alt rock

Album Rating: 4.5

Alt rock is a pretty terrible genre label anyway. If anything it's just an umbrella for a bunch of different sub genres

honestly what defines 'art' rock though. seems like a wanky, mostly weightless descriptor to signify music that's had some actual thought put into it.

Album Rating: 5.0

They stopped being alt. rock with The Bends. All their releases afterward are basically art/experimental rock and electronic.

Album Rating: 4.5

^ yep, that’s what I’d say, for the better as well (for the most part).

Album Rating: 4.5

IMO art rock is just rock minus basically any blues influences

not a bad explanation but man, that can be a very fine line.

Album Rating: 5.0

Art rock examples: the first two Arcade Fire albums, Kate Bush, a lot of Pink Floyd, David Sylvian, lots of David Bowie and Peter Gabriel, To the Bone by Steven Wilson, Wilson’s side-project No-man, The Blue Nile, The Colour of Spring by Talk Talk, Avalon by Roxy Music, Viva la Vida by Coldplay, some Muse, and the more chill Goldfrapp albums.

Art rock tends to be sophisticated and genrebending with some textures, but not as technical and complex as progressive rock or as drawn out and instrumental as post-rock, but there can be overlap in some cases. Often orchestral and electronic elements too. This is the type of music I’ve gravitated towards a lot these past few years.

Album Rating: 4.5

One thing I’ve always wondered is what’s the difference between art & alt rock then? Seems to cover a lot of similar ground, yet alternative (and art) often get used to describe anything that isn’t traditional bluesy 70s rock, some of which barely registers on the experimental scale and is instead absurdly derrivate.