![]() The first time I listened to Kid A in full was when a friend of mine let me borrow the record back in 2000 so I could “burn” a copy of it. I’ve been postponing this review for quite a while because this is one of my favorite records of all time and didn’t want to write a disservice to it, not that I think anyone is reading now that we are hundreds if not thousands doing this list, but now I have something really pressing from work so let’s procrastinate with this. Kid A Mnesia, an anniversary reissue compiling Kid A, Amnesiac and previously unreleased material, was released in 2021. It has been certified platinum in Australia, Canada, France, Japan, the US and the UK. Like OK Computer, it won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. However, it later attracted acclaim at the end of the decade, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and the Times ranked Kid A the greatest album of the 2000s, and in 2020 Rolling Stone ranked it number 20 on its updated list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Its departure from Radiohead's earlier sound divided fans and critics, and some dismissed it as pretentious, deliberately obscure, or derivative. Kid A debuted at the top of the UK Albums Chart, and became Radiohead's first number-one album on the Billboard 200 in the US, where it sold more than 207,000 copies in its first week. In 2000, Radiohead toured Europe in a custom-built tent without corporate logos. Bootlegs of early performances were shared on filesharing services, and the album was leaked before release. Instead, they became one of the first major acts to use the internet as a promotional tool Kid A was made available to stream and was promoted with short animated films featuring music and artwork. In a departure from industry practice, Radiohead released no singles or music videos and conducted few interviews and photoshoots. Yorke wrote impersonal and abstract lyrics, cutting up phrases and assembling them at random. ![]() They processed guitar sounds, incorporated samples and loops, and manipulated their recordings with software such as Pro Tools and Cubase. Drawing influence from electronic music, ambient music, krautrock, jazz, and 20th-century classical music, Radiohead used instruments such as modular synthesisers, ondes Martenot, brass and strings. Radiohead considered releasing the material as a double album, but decided it was too dense a second album of material from the sessions, Amnesiac, was released eight months later.Īfter the stress of promoting Radiohead's acclaimed 1997 album OK Computer, songwriter Thom Yorke wanted to diverge from rock music. ![]() It was recorded with producer Nigel Godrich in Paris, Copenhagen, Gloucestershire and their hometown of Oxford, England. Kid A is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 2 October 2000 by Parlophone. ![]()
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