One more thing. (If I wasn't a fan, I wouldn't care, and I'd stop posting; but I am, and I do, so I will.) In discussing the album with a close friend, he remarked that the album is completely joy-less. Spot on. OKC painted a grim picture of things but, in brief flashes, there is passion...
Different strokes, right? Listened to it again. Still sounds like a Thom Yorke solo record: except for a few cuts, I don't hear a band here. Still, it's well-crafted, even if it bores me. Does "2+2=5" sound like Radiohead-Does-Pearl-Jam to anyone else but me?
Gave it a few spins. It's solid, but unspectacular, and very much of a piece with Kid and Amnesiac. I've enjoyed this 'phase' of Radiohead, but it hasn't really moved me. Ultimately, I don't think it's something that I'll come back to often.
I don't entirely disagree w/ the points made about leakage, but I think the Microsoft analogy, wherein dozens if not hundreds of individuals might have access to a developing product and the capability for leaking it, is a pale one. Band members, studio staff and a few record company folks ought...
Haven't heard the "leaked" stuff, but I'd bet that the band is responsible. If you don't want the music to get out, then it doesn't. Nowadays, anything other than a strict system of preventing a leakage--in the case of a band like this--is going to allow for this type of thing. My question...