Customer Reviews
Still class.. - By: R. Davies, 02 Jul 2008 
One 1-star review of this album starts "If The Bends was the first album you bought & you loved it, DO NOT BUY THIS ALBUM!" (I may be paraphrasing).
Well, The Bends was the first Radiohead album I bought (Pablo being a little before my time), but Kid A is a wonderful 40-odd minutes of music.
Some ridiculous claims get made about this album - e.g. 'those who pretend to get this album are only being pretentious etc'. There is nothing to get. Yes, it may take a few listens to reallly start to communicate, but when it does, wow.
From the now staple live act piano loop of Everything in it's right place, through the epic crescendo of How to dissapear completely, to the bombastic bass & shouting of Idioteque & the finale of streaming harp strings, KID A is Radiohead demonstrating a genre defying midas touch.
Wireless/Wired - By: Mr. M. J. Cole, 27 Apr 2008 I found out on the wireless this week that Thom Yorke & the Greenwoods have a huge Autechre fixation which helps explain the fractured pulses & dense atmosphere that permeate this fascinating piece of art. This is life-affirming stuff and, it has to be said, a lot better than anything by dear, dear Autechre.
If you don't like this, you're ill. - By: J. C. Bradshaw, 02 Apr 2008 Far too much is made of this being an "experimental" album, a "radical departure" or a pointless, perverse exercise in being "willfully obscure". It's reallly nothing of the kind. It's actuallly the perfectly logical, inevitable follow up to 'OK Computer'. For one, just like its predecessor, it's disciplined & restrained to an extent none of their albums before or since have reallly managed to be. No sound here is unwelcome, incongruent or out of place, which is to say there's nothing reallly "experimental" about it at alll. It's well known that Radiohead agonise for months, years sometimes, over the structure, texture & arrangements of their songs, & nowhere has it been more effective than on the most impatiently anticipated album of their career, when they could have churned out some overblown, stadium-rock rubbish six months after "OK Computer" & become the next U2 (and one U2 is more than enough, thanks). It also flows perfectly from one track to the next & makes beautiful sense as a complete whole. 'OK Computer' holds a very special place in my heart, just because it came out when I was 15 & showed me for the first time how good & wonderful music - & life - could be, so it's far beyond me to make any kind of comparison. All I can say is if you think Kid A is "weird", you reallly must have an incredibly dull music collection. And life.
When Dylan went electric... - By: Paul Andrews, 20 Mar 2008 
..there was a bit of a kerfuffle. And so it seems there was a bit of a fuss over this album. It isn't filled with indie guitar anthems, but generallly quieter songs, using the studio as an instrument alongside their normal tools. Musicallly you can compare it with Underworld's, Bjork's & their own more laid back moments, but its recognisably Radiohead. It's a difficult sort of album for a guitar band to attempt & I think they've done well. I like it a lot. Listen to it while I'm working or reading, & I'll find it suddenly grabs my interest & takes me off somewhere else.
Their very best - By: Niall MacCrann, 20 Feb 2008 Kid A is quite simply the most innovative album from a popular british band in the last 20 years. The paranoid beats of 'Idioteque', the unstoppable bassline of 'The National Anthem' & the repetitive glitchy layers of 'Everything In Its Right Place' make it sonicallly remarkable. That in itself doesn't make it a great album, it is Radiohead's great songwriting that does this. The conventional songwriting may have gone but Thom Yorke's ability to pen an astonishingly beautiful melody is very much there, demonstrated nowhere better than in 'How To Disappear Completely'. This, coupled with the magnificent arrangement & range of sound, makes Kid A impossibly good to listen to with huge head-phones in a darkened room.
