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Rainbows in the Mist

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In Scotch Mist, "a film with Radiohead in it," Thom and Co. hook Youtubers up with a live performance of In Rainbows from their very own crawl-space.

The near hour-length video was released for the New Year, and really is just another part of the growing organism that has been their In Rainbows project.

If you haven't yet, cop the vinyl on this one.

 

Comments

Armadillos Eat The Mustard

Submitted by earthstardude on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 02:20.
I dunno...I've been such a Radiohead fan...I cannot tell you how many times I've listened to and studied Ok Computer, Kid A, and Amnesiac...Just total, eternal genius, reaching across so many places, through time and space, and all mixed on a vintage Neve....I really can't separate Radiohead from their productions with Nigel Godrich at the "helm"...and even their process of recording those albums, nightmares and all, had something of a higher mind operating in a pretty sublime way...Listening to the rainbows thing...it just seems mediocre compared to their "classic" efforts...What are they "going for"? Hail to the Thief stepped off of their mountain, and delivered some solid goods to the masses, and this new record has good heart and all...and maybe a few songs are cool...but just minimally...not richly....It's great that they are attaching their online marketing innovations as part of their "product" and identity...and this YouTube session, which has actually been on cable TV on several channels, is pretty cool...I like the feathers part, especially...and I also like how Thom eats his RE-20...(you can do that with an RE-20 and still sound okay)...but something sort of feels "cut off" with where they are at...even in their passion as musicians...it's almost "canned"...and I just long for the deep, cosmic canyons that this band has soared through....and so very brightly above...

Nigel

Submitted by wanderlust on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 05:34.

I agree. Nigel R.I.P.

 

But I don't doubt that with enough time, they will chanel him....likely in their shows.

 

-wanderlust

 

Nigel is the Mer-man we were waiting for

Submitted by earthstardude on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 10:30.
he's a major Pisces, you know...which I can relate to (reflexively, shall we say)...he's not dead, is he? is he dead? sheesh....

Nigel lives...

Submitted by ST Frequency on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 12:21.

Out of curiosity, I did a search to see if Nigel Godrich is still breathing (as I think it's being suggested he's not) and if he was not the engineer/producer behind In Rainbows, which it appears he is, as well...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Godrich

-st

huh

Submitted by earthstardude on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 00:01.

thank you ST...goes to show you how in the loops I am...What do you feel about this Rainbows album? 

 

 

hail to the rainbows

Submitted by Adam Elenbaas on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 14:24.

 

Funny how subjective things are. I couldn't disagree with you more. I think "In-Rainbows," is there most mature, far reaching and explosive album yet. The energy they channel, to me, is like an aged wine.

 I feel less paranoia and ambiguity in this album, and I see it as a sign of blossomed adulthood. I love all their albums for different reasons, but this is probably, to me, the most well-crafted album yet. It's solid rock n roll, and it seems to be a pointed healing.

I felt my body being scrubbed out by this album, and that's a first for me with Radiohead.

They're far above canyons in this one. They're deep space nine, brotha.

They're going for symphonic, integrated zen rock n fucking roll.

Hail to the Rainbows! 

 

Adam Elenbaas

Solid Rock

Submitted by earthstardude on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 14:22.

Ah, space-bro, rocks aren't solid though....space is within and without, and all around...

 

to me, it seems that their deliberate efforts at hanging sonic fabric on a wireframe of rock is far less "deep space 9" than earlier efforts where I can really feel ET hands at work and in prayer...caressing the spiritual discovery that IS the experience of the record and their making of it

 

guess you needed to be scrubbed out....we all do at times...and so you resonate...but there's really only 3 or 4 "rockers" on the album...What about the rest? Doesn't Thom Yorke sound so "done"...(as in, "put a fork in it"), and pre-packaged within his relatively "established" vocal stylings? He's singing...to be sure...but it's coming from him, not through him...and it's the same phrasing and intervals we've heard before...

 

I don't want Thom to go the way of, say, Peter Gabriel...or (maybe worse, not sure) Bjork.... 

 

personally, I'm just at the point with my whole "rock n f-ing roll" experience where I'd like the medium to completely transcend itself...and these guys have been, undoubtedly, at the forefront of that....so this feels like a regression. I've played in acid rock, acid punk, out/psychedelic bands...and have engineered recordings for groups like Godspeed You Black Emperor (atleast half of the band)...I just don't feel a connect with the sort of "Sonic Youth" scrappy, rollicking beats thing that Radiohead is voicing here...this kind of propulsion system may be energizing and spirited, but it's also so linear and one dimensional...and makes me feel like Jerry Lee Lewis....

 

that said...I really like the track Reckoner...it really shows the energy of SONG is what is paramount and, hopefully, operative...and takes everything else into its successful vortex...and I really like the way the guitars are produced...even though the stripped down clarity of the album feels less organic and real to me than their earlier efforts

 

anyway...I'm blabbing opinions...too much....we all have our vectors into the One

 

Overall, to my local heart, this album is generally an innocuous effort...and Thom just keeps on crooning through it....and I know that this crew is capable of voicing the Heart of God...

I'd recommend watching the

Submitted by Jack D. Shelton on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 04:16.
I'd recommend watching the film on the Current channel website as it's in a higher quality STEREO format, unlike youtube, which is in MONO.

 

-Jack D. Shelton, Writer, Musician and Psychopharmacological Enthusiast

intimate

Submitted by Antonio Lopez on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 09:34.
I saw radiohead twice live, and strangely, I find this film more intimate. I was actually disappointed when I saw them because I wanted to hear more noise and improv. While I don't see that here, at least I can see them perform their alchemy more. I like seeing artists in their work space. I would have enjoyed watching them actually record and hash out the tunes. The album came out much better than I expected it, though. When I saw them two summers ago I thought they had become another cold play. I think In Rainbows rocks a lot harder.