KID A

Another great album from a great band. I know Radiohead has been a frequent controversy theme, if it is or isn't progressive rock, I don't know, if it is Art Rock etc. Anyway, I love this band progressive or no, i really love them, because they always have a innovative sound, since their second album "The Bends", they showed us what a great band are, and every album has something different which makes this band more special, after another masterpiece called "OK Computer", in 2000 they release "Kid A", a great compromise with all their fans because OK caused a change in the lives of lots of people, and of course we expected with anxiety their new album .

Kid A is portrait of a mix of feelings and emotions, shaped in one album, with electronic and atmospheric sounds, lots of melancholic passages, great guitar work, nice bass lines, alternative sound, and a very complex arrangements in some songs, Im not sure if Radiohead as a band belongs to progressive rock, but this album is progressive in every way.

"Everything in it's right place" is the opening song, it is not my favourite song, for me is a bit exasperating, it's a freaky song, with synths and repetitive bass sound, the same with vocals are repetitive here, is a good song, sometimes I thought that it is kind of Thom Yorke`s insanity, but I don't know. "Kid A" is an electronic track, with maybe a sad atmosphere, it has something like a robotic voice, with a good drumming marking time, and spatial effects, guitar here is not a hard guitar, it only makes some soft sounds . "The National Anthem" is maybe the most loved of this album, because it has a particular beginning, it is an electronic effect, and then a very known and nice bass line, it is repetitive but it has the control of the song, I think all these facts make it progressive, because it has progression in the most of the songs, mix of emotion and atmospherical sounds, with a great musicianship and of course I have to say with an incredible and beautiful voice, I love Yorke`s voice, another fact are the lyrics, as ever weird lyrics with a melancholic and sad sense, but with a hidden meaning I think, and talking about future life or something, it is something very experimental. "How to Disappear Completely", this song is absolutely beautiful, it has a particular sound of acoustic guitar, it is incredible, I love this song, maybe because it fills me, sometimes I have cried with this song, but that's not the case, musically is great, again with some effects. "Treefingers" is a complete electronic song, without vocals, and with a very depressing mood, after How to Disappear when you maybe are in tears , listening to Treefingers is a complement for that felling, musically it is one of the weakest tracks. "Optimistic" is next to that depressing moments and it has a more hard edged sound, the rhythm of this song is lead by guitars, Jonny Greenwood is an excellent guitarist, and maybe this song is one of the few with a known Radiohead sound, I mean with more power and vocals and guitars, not so electronic. "In Limbo" is a song that I don't enjoy so much, its immediately next to Optimistic, is softer with nice guitar sound, but pretty boring I think. "Idioteque", that beginning of the song makes me shout, what a great song, here we can listen to a drums sound controlled by electronic devices, in concert Phil Selway (the drummer, great drummer) plays it with his drums and it sounds notably different but great, this song is great , with a faster sound , again, a weird lyric, and great vocals and electronic sounds, it is excellent. "Morning Bell" is that song that you will remind, because it is not the best, but it has something that is attracting you, until you love it, you will always remind that it in Amnesiac we can listen to this song but in Amnesiac Version, I prefer by far this version. "Motion Picture Soundtrack", the best weird track to finish a weird album, this song is beautiful, with a great organ and strange but great soundscape, and the voice singing while we are suffering, what a great album. It has also a hidden track, a little electronic track. Well, after this, and because I love this album, every time I listen to it I get impressed again, it is simply a masterpiece of rock, and in this case, a masterpiece of progressive rock, I know some of you wont enjoy it because simply don't like Radiohead, but believe me, this album is amazing.

So, 5 star of course!