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Kid A

by Radiohead

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Overall Rating: 3.3527 Kid A is ranked overall as 3.3527 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 3.2317 Kid A has an avg. critic score of 3.2317 out of 4 stars

Kid A Rank 3 Reviews

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Excellent
4
 
(13)
Very Good
3
 
(17)
Good
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(4)
Fair
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Poor
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(10)

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Nude As The News
As musically far away as it is from OK Computer, the record is actually a logical progression. ...more
Adrian Denning.co.uk
Well, what were you expecting? An exact hybrid of 'OK Computer' and 'The Bends'? How were Radiohead meant to follow up 'OK Computer' anyhow? Any follow up in the same kind of style would have been a very difficult thing to do, and in any event, ...more
Adrian Denning.co.uk
Well, what were you expecting? An exact hybrid of 'OK Computer' and 'The Bends'? How were Radiohead meant to follow up 'OK Computer' anyhow? Any follow up in the same kind of style would have been a very difficult thing to do, and in any event, ...more
Entertainment Weekly
On first listen, ''Kid A'' sounds like doggerel -- effects with beats, and off putting effects at that. Only after a dozen or so attentive listens does the album reveal itself as sublimely restless mood music. And even then, it remains elusive and aloof: ...more
Wall of Sound
An ardent and successful attempt by the British quintet to divorce and distance itself from its past and to reinvent both itself and our notions of pop music, using soundscapes rather than songs, and instrumental choices that are a far cry from the ...more

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MTV.com
Yes, as with OK Computer, stark minimalism marks this effort, and the carefully plotted layers of instruments and machine-generated blips only add to the feeling of emotional emptiness. Seemingly stripped bare of all adornment, however, the new album ...more
CDNow
With Kid A, Radiohead has made the ultimate 3 a.m. stoner-headphone album, one that marks an entirely logical progression from -- if not necessarily an improvement upon -- the techno-but-not-really O.K. Computer.... Occasionally, it feels less like a ...more
Dot Music
A cryptic but brilliant record, radically stripped of Radiohead's supposed musical strengths and charged throughout with a feverish desire to subvert and, perhaps, alienate. ...more
Village Voice
It's... really different. And oblique oblique oblique: short, unsettled, deliberately shorn of easy hooks and clear lyrics and comfortable arrangements. Also incredibly beautiful. ...more
Rolling Stone
It is a kind of virtual rock in which the roots have been cut away, and the formal language -- hook, riff, bridge -- has been warped, liquefied and, in some songs, thrown out altogether. If you're looking for instant joy and easy definition, you are ...more
Ink Blot Magazine
For an album that apparently grew out of the band trying to get away from melody, there's a lot of it here. They can't help themselves. They try to do a song with a robotic dance beat, load it up with bleak phrases like "laughing till my head comes off" ...more
Rolling Stone
The first track on Radiohead's fourth album is called "Everything in Its Right Place." Actually,nothingin the song sounds like it is in its proper place. An electric piano marches in arrhythmic circles, crisscrossed by the wheeze of an ...more
Yahoo! Music
Radiohead have been acutely detached from the supposed joys their position commands for so long now that the predictably difficult 'Kid A' should come as no surprise. From a rudimentary group of indie upstarts, thrown under the global microscope ...more
All Music Guide
Kid A is easily the most successful electronica album from a rock band -- so much so that it doesn't sound like the work of a rock band, even if it does sound like Radiohead.... Despite its admirable ambition -- ambition that is all the more impressive ...more
All Music Guide
Instead of simply adding club beats or sonic collage techniques, Radiohead strive to incorporate the unsettling "intelligent techno" sound ofAutechreandAphex Twin, characterized by its skittering beats and stylishly dark sonic surfaces, forKid A. ...more
New Musical Express
For all its feats of brinkmanship, the patently magnificent construct called 'Kid A' betrays a band playing one-handed just to prove they can, scared to commit itself emotionally. ...more
HOB.com
Yes, they tried something different, but they kept it accessible. Just as with the last album's guitar-rock-on-tranquilizers, if Kid A's mood music changes the world it will be precisely because it is mainstream, not because it is revolutionary. ...more

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