Demob Happy

Radiohead and the art of modern marketing

10/10
How much is music worth? Not the CD it’s printed on or the cover art, and certainly not the plastic jewel case - but the music itself? Or more precisely, how much is Radiohead’s music worth? This is the question the band have asked fans to contemplate [...]

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Hail Radiohead!
8/10
It can take a few years to properly appraise an album by a band as great as Radiohead. It is important to shake off the initial impressions - distorted as they are by the weight of expectation - and allow the album time to grow on you. A band that has so consistently [...]

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Kid B?
8/10
Apparently largely recorded during the same sessions as Kid A, and released only a year later, it has always been hard to divorce Amesiac from its predecessor and look at it on its own terms. It was suggested at the time - and repeated in the Amazon review - that this was slightly more [...]

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“Everything in its right place”
10/10
It’s hard to totally understand the furore surrounding the release of Radiohead’s much-anticipated (and arguably best) fourth album. Considering the bold and uncompromising nature of some tracks on OK Computer it seems stranger in context that that album should have had such broad appeal. One can only assume that the [...]

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“The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear”
9/10
Thom Yorke’s Eraser is best viewed as a tangential companion piece to Kid A, in my mind Radiohead’s best album. It was that record’s Morning Bell that best married Thom Yorke’s bare, unprocessed vocals with electronic soundscaping and instrumentation. Those dissatisified with some of [...]

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