1. 8 Jan


    Today is David Bowie’s 66th birthday, and he decided to celebrate by offering a present to his legions of fans: The surprise release of “Where Are We Now?” — Bowie’s first new song in 10 years.  With “Where Are We Now?” Bowie may have mounted “the most surprising, perfect, and welcome comeback in rock history,” says Neil McCormick at The Telegraph. Give it a listen.

    Today is David Bowie’s 66th birthday, and he decided to celebrate by offering a present to his legions of fans: The surprise release of “Where Are We Now?” — Bowie’s first new song in 10 years. 

    With “Where Are We Now?” Bowie may have mounted “the most surprising, perfect, and welcome comeback in rock history,” says Neil McCormick at The Telegraph. Give it a listen.

     

  2. 18 Feb


    A still from the video for Radiohead’s new single ‘Lotus Flower.’ Lovely. Watch the video here. Fans and critics are already sending in their reviews of the new album The King of Limbs. Here are a few reactions: Yawn: There are few surprises in this “disappointing” release, says Tim Jonze in The Guardian. The band’s early albums like The Bends, OK Computer, and Kid A “carved out a radical new direction,” and the last album, In Rainbows, was probably their best. While Radiohead is an innovative band with an “unusual” business model, I get the “nagging feeling that The King of Limbs is more like business as usual.” Actually, it’s full of surprises: The band goes in some surprising new directions on this one, and I like it, says Lucy Jones in The Telegraph. Gone is the angst and “existential anxiety” of previous releases. A less electronic, dance-y sound is pervaded with a “laidback, chilled ambience.” All this makes for a veritable “treasure” of an album that puts the “band’s ability to write beguilingly beautiful songs first and… the grit and testosterone on the backseat.” More reviews.

    A still from the video for Radiohead’s new single ‘Lotus Flower.’ Lovely. Watch the video here.

    Fans and critics are already sending in their reviews of the new album The King of Limbs. Here are a few reactions:

    • Yawn: There are few surprises in this “disappointing” release, says Tim Jonze in The Guardian. The band’s early albums like The Bends, OK Computer, and Kid A “carved out a radical new direction,” and the last album, In Rainbows, was probably their best. While Radiohead is an innovative band with an “unusual” business model, I get the “nagging feeling that The King of Limbs is more like business as usual.”
    • Actually, it’s full of surprises: The band goes in some surprising new directions on this one, and I like it, says Lucy Jones in The Telegraph. Gone is the angst and “existential anxiety” of previous releases. A less electronic, dance-y sound is pervaded with a “laidback, chilled ambience.” All this makes for a veritable “treasure” of an album that puts the “band’s ability to write beguilingly beautiful songs first and… the grit and testosterone on the backseat.”

    More reviews.