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The Bends

Radiohead

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Album Review

Pablo Honey in no way was adequate preparation for its epic, sprawling follow-up, The Bends. Building from the sweeping, three-guitar attack that punctuated the best moments of Pablo Honey, Radiohead create a grand and forceful sound that nevertheless resonates with anguish and despair — it's cerebral anthemic rock. Occasionally, the album displays its influences, whether it's U2, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., or the Pixies, but Radiohead turn clichés inside out, making each song sound bracingly fresh. Thom Yorke's tortured lyrics give the album a melancholy undercurrent, as does the surging, textured music. But what makes The Bends so remarkable is that it marries such ambitious, and often challenging, instrumental soundscapes to songs that are at their cores hauntingly melodic and accessible. It makes the record compelling upon first listen, but it reveals new details with each listen, and soon it becomes apparent that with The Bends, Radiohead have reinvented anthemic rock.

Customer Reviews

Dummy

This is the first album of Radiohead's unprecedented legacy. A must have.

My Lord. This is Radiohead.

From the instantly enjoyable "Planet Telex" to the eerie outro of "Street Spirit"... the entire album is pure bliss. If you want to know why everyone (in their right minds) says Radiohead is so amazing, start here.

This album needs more 5 star ratings ( I hope I'm not being dramatic).

When old douche-bags talk about how all good rock and roll died in the sixties or seventies I immediately think about this album and mock them in my head. This is better then most of the stuff made in the seventies. Oh old douche-bags, when will you ever not be wrong?

Biography

Formed: 1989 in Oxford, England

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

Radiohead were one of the few alternative bands of the early '90s to draw heavily from the grandiose arena rock that characterized U2's early albums. But the band internalized that epic sweep, turning it inside out to tell tortured, twisted tales of angst and alienation. Vocalist Thom Yorke's pained lyrics were brought to life by the group's three-guitar attack, which relied on texture — borrowing as much from My Bloody Valentine and Pink Floyd as R.E.M. and Pixies — instead of virtuosity....
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