The King Of Limbs – Radiohead
By Meghan Blalock
The first time I listened to Radiohead’s latest release, The King of Limbs, all the way through, I was trying to nap. It was a lazy and weird Saturday afternoon in Manhattan; the sun was filtering through my blinds, but I wanted it to be cloudy. I hadn’t rested well the night before, I had a tiny ache gnawing at the left side of my forehead, and as I closed my eyes and listened to the album, I drifted off into a weird half-sleep state in which dancing colors mixed with the jazz-y bass lines and trippy melodies of the tracks. In other words, it was the perfect way to hear the album for the first time. Continue reading
