RADIOHEAD: In Rainbows Vinyl LP

In 2007, Radiohead released In Rainbows as a pay-what-you-want download and broke the music industry's brain for about six months. The irony is the album itself is warm, sensual, and probably their most human record, which is not what you expect from a band who spent the previous decade making art rock about technological alienation and slow civilisational collapse.

Nude, Reckoner, Videotape, these are not songs that let go easily. In Rainbows sits at the centre of Radiohead's catalogue as the moment Thom Yorke and the Greenwoods stopped building walls of sound and started breathing space into everything instead. It's the record that converts people who thought Kid A was too cold and keeps the people who loved Kid A for exactly that reason. The dark aesthetic of their earlier work is still here, just worn differently, less industrial dread, more existential ache. Essential alt rock, full stop.

Vinyl 2xLP. UK origin. Original release 2007.

Fans of: PIXIES, BLUR, THE CURE, THE STROKES, THE SMITHS, JOY DIVISION