New Radiohead Album...19 February!!!!!!!!

And...they're back. Radiohead have just announced their eighth full-length record, The King of Limbs. Billed as the world's first "Newspaper Album," an extravagantly packaged version of the record will be issued on May 9; however, the music itself will effectively be issued on Saturday, February 19 when digital downloads become available to those who made pre-orders.

So Radiohead have set aside the "pay what you want" patronage model that dominated the conversation surrounding the In Rainbows release, yet have retained that album's more important business aspects: Packaging their music as a high-end collectable and controlling its leak, which has the effect of creating what these days is a rare, worldwide, collective listening experience. Once again, we all know exactly when we're first able to hear a new Radiohead record and therefore will largely all experience it together, something almost completely lost in today's pop music landscape. This in effect is also what Kanye West did so successfully with his G.O.O.D. Friday project.

Full information is quoted below, and pre-orders are currently being accepted at Thekingoflimbs.com. At present there is no track information.

Brass Monkey wrote:Aye, how many more songs can they sound like they're sitting on a jagged dildo whilst punching a cat in the stomach and letting a four year old play with the mixing levels and effects? Maudlin qunts.

furriner wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:Aye, how many more songs can they sound like they're sitting on a jagged dildo whilst punching a cat in the stomach and letting a four year old play with the mixing levels and effects? Maudlin qunts.

I tried Radiohead when Invader Zim first spoke about them on here....IIRC couple years ago.

I've been struggling to describe their songs ever since. Thanks, I'll go with what you said.

Invader Zim wrote:
Holy farking sh!t this is the best news I've heard in years

Winkle Spinner wrote:I never really was into Radiohead until a friend of mine who is, and I'm sure he'd agree with me, a squealing little radiohead fan boy, insisted we sit down and listen till I got it, with the help of our good friend Mary.

I was sceptical but had nothing better to do with my evening, and ever so slowly I did begin to get it.

I would count myself a fan now and am as such pretty exicted with this news, but I do still agree with Danny on their first couple of albums - almost as miserable as Leonard Cohen. I would urge everyone give everything they made after they stoped whinging a go, though, even if you don't get it at first.