King of Limbs

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And suddenly once again, the world is by another album announcing by the almighty Radiohead. The King of Limbs will be out this Saturday in digital format and then hard print later on in May. It comes no surprise to those who love the band that the public knows almost nothing about this album. There isn't a tracklist to be found and save for a few grainy youtube video scattered about, there's no a single clue to what any of the songs on the new album sound like. Why might this be? For starters, Radiohead is a pretty smart group of blokes. Not just in the well read sense either, but business savvy as well. The way they released In Rainbows a few years ago blew everyone's top hats clear off. Radiohead knows that selling music these days is not about closing the deal on the greatest total number of people. It's just about the people that care. That's exactly who they're catering with this release, which was absolutely true for In Rainbows as well. People are going to scoop up this deluxe "newspaper album" like free money, despite its $200 price tag. And that's going to completely baffle the record labels, who only believe the public want things for free....

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What's this new album going to sound like? Well I'm going to go ahead and hedge my bets around the lines of Kid A pt. II. In all my earnest enthusiasm for this band, I keep pretty regularly with Thom's Office Charts, which is the corner of the interest where he regularly posts his loves that are currently blasting though his speakers. And Thom Yorke has been loving some bloopy yet gentle, futuristicly dubby, vaguely paranoid sounds. So let it be said, you heard it here first. Kid A Pt. II. Honestly part about it all will be gritting my teeth, hunkering down, and pushing it to the back of my head until Saturday. But I said the same thing about Spring Break a week ago, so I guess that's just life y'all.