And this is the main problem - though it's nice for an artist to be generous and release two albums, these two records clearly derive from the same source and have the same flaws, which clearly would have been corrected if they had been consolidated into one record. But, these are not moments that are markedly different than Kid A, which itself lost momentum as it sputtered to a close.

True, it's a hodgepodge with amazing moments: the hypnotic sway of 'Pyramid Song' and 'You and Whose Army?,' the swirling 'I Might Be Wrong,' 'Knives Out,' and the spectacular closer 'Life in a Glasshouse,' complete with a drunkenly swooning brass band. Where Kid A had shock on its side, along with an admirably dogged desire to not be conventional, Amnesiac often plays as a hodgepodge. It would be easier to accept this if the record was better than it is. This, inevitably, will disappoint the legions awaiting another guitar-based record (that is, after all, what they were explicitly promised), but what were they expecting? This is an album recorded at the same time and Radiohead have a certain reputation to uphold. Since Radiohead designed Kid A as a self-consciously epochal, genre-shattering record, the songs that didn't make the cut were a little simpler, so it shouldn't be a surprise that Amnesiac plays like a streamlined version of Kid A, complete with blatant electronica moves and production that sacrifices songs for atmosphere. That, however, ignores a salient point - Amnesiac, as the album came to be known, consists of recordings made during the Kid A sessions, so it essentially sounds the same. At the time, people bought the myth, especially since live favorites like 'Knives Out' and 'You and Whose Army?' were nowhere to be seen on Kid A.

NME also points out that Billboard recently ruled that YouTube plays will factor into their album chart calculations going forward, so thatвЂ™s one reason why Radiohead (or whoever) may want to offer their music to a wider audience.Faced with a deliberately difficult deviation into 'experimentation,' Radiohead and their record label promoted Kid A as just that - a brave experiment, and that the next album, which was just around the corner, really, would be the 'real' record, the one to satiate fans looking for the next OK Computer, or at least guitars. Their OK Computer reissue OKNOTOK, King of Limbs remix album TKOL RMX 1234567 and recently released rarity вЂњ Ill Wind,вЂќ among other curiosities, are also in the mix.ДЄs NME notes, вЂњIt is not clear whether Radiohead added the albums themselves or if itвЂ™s the doing of XL Recordings, who acquired the bandвЂ™s catalogue back in 2016,вЂќ though we have to imagine this is the bandвЂ™s doing, as opposed to XL going rogue. The bandвЂ™s YouTube library now includes all nine of their studio albums, from their 1993 debut Pablo Honey to 2016вЂ™s A Moon Shaped Pool, the latter of which we recently ranked among the decadeвЂ™s best LPs. Radiohead have always had a complicated relationship with streaming services, to say the least, and the latest twist in that saga is the band bypassing said services entirely, uploading their entire discography to YouTube.

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