Radiohead – The Bends (LP)
Pablo Honey in no way was adequate preparation for its epic, sprawling follow-up, The Bends. Building from the sweeping, three-guitar attack that punctuated the best moments of Pablo Honey, Radiohead create a grand and forceful sound that nevertheless resonates with anguish and despair -- it's cerebral anthemic rock. Occasionally, the album displays its influences, whether it's U2, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., or the Pixies, but Radiohead turn clichés inside out, making each song sound bracingly fresh. Thom Yorke's tortured lyrics give the album a melancholy undercurrent, as does the surging, textured music. But what makes The Bends so remarkable is that it marries such ambitious, and often challenging, instrumental soundscapes to songs that are at their cores hauntingly melodic and accessible. It makes the record compelling upon first listen, but it reveals new details with each listen, and soon it becomes apparent that with The Bends, Radiohead have reinvented anthemic rock. We do hope to have Radiohead's full catalog in stock, but i think it is always nice to the least have the 'essential' classics for now.
Label: Capitol Records – 7243 8 29626 1 8
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180 gram
Country: US
Released: 2008
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock
Notes:
Recorded at Rak, The Manor Abbey Road. Mixed at Forte Apache & Abbey Road. Mastered & edited at Abbey Road.
Dedicated to the late Bill Hicks. Also to Indigo.
Etched in run-out:
A: She's out with her answerphone
B: (Nice Dream)
Price: SGD 38
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