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Download: Radiohead - The King of Limbs
Download: Radiohead - The King of Limbs
The Oxford enigmas retreat to a tiny world of microscopic details
Tuesday, 01 March 2011
Are the elusive and allusive Radiohead in danger of disappearing altogether?
What's weird about the reams of commentaries that have already sprouted around The King of Limbs is the way they try to tell you what it resembles, but not what it actually is. Apparently it's like Miles Davis, Foals, Autechre, dubstep, Talk Talk, Philip Glass and Charles Mingus, among others. But is there an essential Radioheadness at its core?
What's weird about the reams of commentaries that have already sprouted around The King of Limbs is the way they try to tell you what it resembles, but not what it actually is. Apparently it's like Miles Davis, Foals, Autechre, dubstep, Talk Talk, Philip Glass and Charles Mingus, among others. But is there an essential Radioheadness at its core?
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