Kid A
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2000 |
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| Label (s) | Parlophone / EMI (UK); Capitol (USA) | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
50:00 min. |
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Kid A is the fourth album by the English band Radiohead and was released on October 2, 2000 .
description
The album is marked by a departure from the guitar-oriented rock songs on The Bends ( 1995 ) and OK Computer ( 1997 ). After several years of touring with "OK Computer", the band and producer Nigel Godrich decided to find a different approach to music. The result was a production time of several years and songs that have little to do with songs in the classical sense (verse-chorus scheme). The instrumentation was also atypical; Guitars are rarely used, the Ondes Martenot are a defining instrument .
Reviews
Both the American music magazine Rolling Stone and the online magazine Pitchfork Media voted Kid A the best album of the years 2000–2009. The album won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album .
The album scored 80/100 on Metacritic .
Blips
In the run-up to the release, advertising was almost completely dispensed with, so the band did not give any interviews, nor were there any videos or single releases. In the Internet , as a substitute for missing video clips, abstract blips , short video sequences backed by album tracks were circulating that portrayed the vision of a misguided capitalism that is populated by genetically manipulated killer bears . Those then also became a kind of “ mascot ” of the album artwork.
Trivia
The first 150,000 European copies contain a mistake: The CDs begin with an approximately 40-second intro of a live performance by the band Pearl Jam , so that each additional track on the album begins 40 seconds "behind" the actual track mark.
Track list
- Everything In Its Right Place (4:11)
- Kid A (4:44)
- The National Anthem (5:48)
- How To Disappear Completely (5:55)
- Treefingers (3:42)
- Optimistic (5:16)
- In Limbo (3:31)
- Idioteque (5:08)
- Morning Bell (4:28)
- Motion Picture Soundtrack (+ Hidden-Track Gen Children ) (3:17)
Web links
- Kid A on MusicBrainz
- Kid A at Allmusic (English)