RADIOHEAD
In Rainbows: A

''The electronic swarms that marked 2000's Kid A and 2001's Amnesiac are either gone or folded seamlessly into arrangements. There's empty space here: On parts of the multifaceted opener '15 Step' and the quietly unnerving 'Nude,' you hear just drums and an undistorted guitar, with maybe a modest bass line, behind Thom Yorke's plaintive warbling. Elsewhere, synthesizer washes provide ambient backdrops. And despite a few aggressive bursts — 'Bodysnatchers' is a flailing rocker that has Yorke wailing 'I'm alive!' — Rainbows may be the gentlest, prettiest Radiohead set yet. —Will Hermes

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