Kid A (2009) Album Review

Radiohead's latest, Kid A , makes the daunting ''OK Computer'' seem as accessible as a sitcom theme song. Much of ''Kid A'' doesn't sound like Radiohead at all. Read more about Kid A on 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: Some songs are beautifully ambient, others are filler, and some are one and the same. Read more about Kid A on Entertainment Weekly

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 swimming in the wrong soup.... Kid A is a work of deliberately inky, often irritating obsession. Read more about Kid A on 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. Read more about Kid A on Rolling Stone

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.... Read more about Kid A on All Music Guide