Kid A
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Kid A
Kid A is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 2 October 2000 by Parlophone. After the stress of promoting Radiohead's acclaimed 1997 album OK Computer, songwriter Thom Yorke envisioned a radical change in direction. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Kid A-- the rubber match in the band's legacy-- an album which completely obliterates how albums, and Radiohead themselves, will be considered.
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Soundblab
Kid A is the largely uncontrolled outpouring of creative ideas and emotional catharsis of a group at the edge of their existence as a rock band. It was flawed, but at its best, it was one of the finest experimental rock albums ever made.
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NME
Ultimately, everything about ‘Kid A’ – its distorted cover art, its obliqueness, its refusal to push easy emotional buttons – can be understood as Yorke telling the world: I’m not that. I’m this.
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SPIN
No Guitars. No anthems. No future. Radiohead make a post-rock masterpiece.
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Newsweek
Kid A lulls you with a fleecy-warm sense of belonging (the coddling bells and tinkling sounds in "Everything in Its Right Place"), then mocks your naïve bedazzlement with bursts of arch, disjointed avant-garde (the annoying pileup of squawking instruments on "The National Anthem").
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Under the Deer
Kid A flows seamlessly from song to song, idea to idea, emotion to emotion.
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The Guardian
Wrestling with post-millennial tension, Kid A was a musical meditation on paranoia, premonitions and profound beauty.
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Sputnik Music
While the band manages to completely abandon their old sound, they adapt to this new one with expertise and precision.
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BBC
Having broken this barrier, the world really was their oyster.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Kid A sticks out whether they like it or not; it's an album that reserved six months until its lackluster follow-up, Amnesiac. But during that transient moment of pure musical bliss, we experienced one of the most exhilarating moments in recent rock history.
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XS Noize
Kid A addresses numerous moods with its rich and dense layers making it timeless in the universality of its impact and a masterpiece.
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All Music
Kid A is easily the most successful electronica album from a rock band: it doesn't even sound like the work of a rock band, even if it does sound like Radiohead.
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Alt Rock Chick
It remains my favorite Radiohead album, the sublime sound of artists overcoming fears and expectations to create something unique and wondrous.
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Consequence of Sound
It’s a perfect wedding of form and content.
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Wired
After Kid A, Radiohead would never be the same again.
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Rockhaq
Yorke’s words are nasty, unpleasant and quite frankly, horrible to listen to. But even this savagery is beautifully poetic.
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Music OMH
The claustrophobia of earlier Radiohead albums is not to be found on Kid A, for this is replaced by a feeling of space, even on The National Anthem, the most rhythmic track on the album.
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
Kid A is very well done – it’s all memorable, not just a band playing lip service to their influences, and it’s effectively defined the sonic space that Radiohead have inhabited ever since.
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Entertainment Weekly
As unnervingly cryptic as Kid A can be, it is a genuinely challenging work in a generally unchallenging time. It’s the Ralph Nader of pop.
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4 out of 5 Reviews
Kid A is Radiohead's greatest record.
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Cluas
You have to tip your hat at Radiohead for this bold statement of fiery musical intent.
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