Kid A

Reviewed by:
Bill Crandall

Kid A is Radiohead’s special child, an oddball indulgence of electronic art rock. Hey, give the British quintet credit for going all the way: Pushing the sprawl of 1998’s critical darling, OK Computer, even further, swirling bleeps and pings take center stage here, only occasionally yielding to soft guitar strumming, traffic-jam saxophones, and Thom Yorke’s weepy vocals of alienation (“I’m not here,” “I’ve lost my way”). What these “songs” lack in structure they make up for in spaced-out grandeur. Cool, hypnotizing, and definitely not kid stuff.

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