New album being digitally released (in WAV, if you like) on Saturday! Just pre-ordered the $53 2-lp set, which won't ship till May but includes a WAV download. Super excited to hear the new material.

http://www.thekingoflimbs.com/

will probably buy but would rather just get a CD....

Chances are they'll do a standard CD release later, much like In Rainbows. For that they did a similarly quick announcement/online release schedule, with the $80 discbox as the only physical version announced. A few months later there was a CD release available at normal prices and locations.

ditto on the CD... might D'L the WAV and do it myself until then though.

... 2-lp set...

Their recent albums have been fairly short -- do they have enough new material to justify a 2-lp release?

EDIT: Okay, I see that they're doing two 10" records -- why? Why not just do one 12" record?

Yep In Rainbows was probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite album of theirs (after OK Comp and possibly The Bends). Can't wait to hear this.

New album being digitally released (in WAV, if you like) on Saturday! Just pre-ordered the $53 2-lp set, which won't ship till May but includes a WAV download. Super excited to hear the new material.

http://www.thekingoflimbs.com/

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Won't be able to wait for the CD so it will be wav download on Saturday for me!

Same here. Weird choice to release the album in wav though.

Their recent albums have been fairly short -- do they have enough new material to justify a 2-lp release?

EDIT: Okay, I see that they're doing two 10" records -- why? Why not just do one 12" record?

In Rainbows was two 12's at 45RPM, and it was 42 minutes long which is totally acceptable by my "favorite album" standards. Not that I think it was perfect, just that all of my actual favorites are fairly succinct and lack filler. Hail to the Thief was a chunky 56 minutes which nulls and voids your point about short recent albums anyway.

That said, I'm expecting this album to be heavily experimental. Based on the amount of time they've been recording the damn thing and some comments in interviews about how well they all got along this time out... makes me think that they really dug in and found something new to say. Either that or they've all gotten old and can't be bothered to argue for change anymore.

Edited February 15, 201115 yr by NightWoundsTime

Drool...will DL

IMO In Rainbows was too conservative, I hope Matt is right that it is more experimental. Love OK Computer, Kid A and Amnesiac.

I was going to say that but I'm not exactly sure what I'd take out. I love HTTT, just not as an album.

IMO In Rainbows was too conservative, I hope Matt is right that it is more experimental. Love OK Computer, Kid A and Amnesiac.

I think you'll be happy sir, it's way more experimental than In Rainbows. On my first listen, I like what's I'm hearing, it will definitely need multiple listens to fully enjoy though.

It's downloadable now - 24 hours early

I really liked In Rainbows, something about the songs and the album as a whole seemed more coherent and intimate than the previous. Listening to King of Limbs now, will decide how I like it in a week.

Alright on first listen new album is tits. I got a Kid A/Amnesiac vibe and it sounds so good on the Omega 2 good stuff, going to blast it on the speakers tomorrow

Alright on first listen new album is tits. I got a Kid A/Amnesiac vibe and it sounds so good on the Omega 2 good stuff, going to blast it on the speakers tomorrow

Same here, but truthfully, I'm a bit let down: this sounds like a re-tread. Not that it's "bad" in an absolute sense, but I expected something new, sonically.

Yay, downloading now. Will be blasting on my speakers in minutes .

Same here, but truthfully, I'm a bit let down: this sounds like a re-tread. Not that it's "bad" in an absolute sense, but I expected something new, sonically.

The only tracks I wasn't crazy about were the last two. IMO Codex would have been a really good closer for the album.

Downloading now.

Wow. Experimental is right, and very very good. I have nothing intelligent to add at this moment but must say that my fake surround plugin for Foobar did some pretty awesome things to this album. Add to that the Milkdrop visualizations and that was one short strange trip. I'll be repeating it often.

I don't like prematurely judging an album which is why I'm giving it a week, but I'm not seeing what people are talking about with saying it is experimental. Seems like the least experimental album they have made, in fact the subdued nature is almost boring when compared with their previous complex rhythmic-wall-of-sound-while-still-being-atmospheric type electronic jiving.

I don't like prematurely judging an album which is why I'm giving it a week, but I'm not seeing what people are talking about with saying it is experimental. Seems like the least experimental album they have made, in fact the subdued nature is almost boring when compared with their previous complex rhythmic-wall-of-sound-while-still-being-atmospheric type electronic jiving.

OK, what I'm hearing as experimental (by Radiohead standards), is the stripped back but very complex sound. What took them so long in the recording of this album was obviously doing more tinkering than ever with tiny details. This thing was built in samples, an electronic album engineered to sound like a Radiohead remix.

Makes sense. Gonna shut up and let it grow on me for a week now.