Radiohead: The King of Limbs
Label: !K7
What do you want to know about the physical object that is the new Radiohead album? Eight songs, a little under 38 minutes; The King of Limbs is pure Radiohead-style slipperiness, and we mean that in a good way. The skittering beats and amorphous electronics -- a little unsettling, a lot pretty -- go down bittersweetly, and the band continues to spin a most unique web around and through modern music and culture in a larger sense. Songs like "Lotus Flower" and "Little by Little" do those hard-to-pin-down Radiohead things that we like so much: swirl, charm, beguile, and then slip away into the ether.
