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Hail To The Thief

by Radiohead

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Overall Rating: 3.3460 Hail To The Thief is ranked overall as 3.3460 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.1766 Hail To The Thief has an avg. critic score of 3.1766 out of 4 stars

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Drawer B

The biggest problem with Hail to The Thief is its lack of surprise. ...more

Rolling Stone

Despite the anger and bitterness, Hail to the Thief is more musically inviting than Radiohead's last two outings. ...more

Amazon.com

Like all of the band’s best work, Thief requires more than a few listens to fully appreciate, but those who stick around will be richly rewarded. ...more

Flak Magazine

Of course it's political, and of course it continues to merge electronic experimentation with more familiar rock structures; but it employs all those debate-igniting props simply to further the band's more pressing agenda: to tirelessly explore beauty's ...more

Delusions of Adequacy

This is truly an album that will stay with you once you’ve let it work its way in. ...more

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Rolling Stone

Radiohead'sHail To the Thiefis a product of its moment: recorded in late 2002, during the American and British governments' slow, inevitable march to Iraq, of which lead singer Thom Yorke was an outspoken opponent.Hailis filled with images ...more

Playlouder

sample: Wolf at The Door It was worth waiting for the real thing then. The bootleg that every man and his aardvark downloaded a few months back was incomplete, and while the feeling at the time was the new album would prove to be a stinker, ...more

All Music Guide

Despite the fact that it seems more like a bunch of songs on a disc than a singular body, its impact is substantial. ...more

All Music Guide

Radiohead's admittedly assumed dilemma: how to push things forward using just the right amounts of the old and the older in order to please both sides of the divide? Taking advantage of their longest running time to date, enough space is provided ...more

Stylus Magazine

Ah, the burden of being a Radiohead. In his now infamous, much-lampooned review ofKid Afor the New Yorker, Nick Hornby admitted that the reason he probably wasnât as enthusiastic about the record as he might have been was that he ...more

New Musical Express

That's not to say there's not some exceptional music on this record, it's just once again the impact of the best moments is dulled by the inclusion of some indifferent electronic compositions. ...more

Drowned In Sound

Step right up ladies and gentlemen! Witness the amazing sight that is Radiohead! The band that is signed to a major label, but still has indie cred! The band that not only sells huge loads of albums and fills stadiums, but also gets a huge amount ...more

Tiny Mix Tapes.com

I hate album reviews. I’ve never even read one in its entirety. Believe me I’ve tried, but I can never get past the first paragraph. Writers seem to be plagued by some kind of unknown curse, forcing them to start off each piece with ...more

nme.com

When 'OK Computer', Radiohead 's third album, swept aside all competition in 1997's end of year polls, it did so for a good reason. Not only was it a toweringly complex and beautiful record, but alongside releases from Spiritualized ('Ladies ...more

Almost Cool

Neumu

Contrary to most, if I had to choose one Radiohead album to take to the desert island, it would be Kid A (Capitol, 2000), not OK Computer (Capitol, 1997). "Everything in Its Right Place," with tones that could have come from the best Warp ...more

Neumu

In the same season that Radiohead's OK Computer was released, I moved with my husband, infant son and Radiohead disc (along with a few other possessions) to Brussels. I spent the first several months in a quiet cocoon, with my husband at work, my ...more

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