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The Greatest Album Ever… (in my opinion)

Radiohead – Kid A

For a first listener, I can personally admit the difficulty behind acknowledging such beauty surrounding your ears. But it wasn’t long before I found myself chiseling each diverse sound, whether it was the chiming electronics, the staccato piano loops or the soft pipe organs. Once deep inside this expansive, hypnotic world of Kid A, classifications are no longer a necessity.

Whether you like it or not, the fact they had the guts to challenge mainstream insipidness combined with such sparkling creativity was admirable. In context of that era, it was a thrilling experimental gamble for a band that could of easily re-made ‘Karma Police’ at least 50 times without damaging their reputation. Instead, Radiohead decided they’d drown out their intricate compositions in ambient washes, justifying the bands irrepressible originality and psychological, alien production making rock and roll seem childish.

As far as I’m concerned, this was Radiohead’s defining achievement. A unique departure from past conventional rock templates such as ‘Ok Computer’ and ‘The Bends’, Kid A contains far more obscure and abstract influences than its predecessors as it still remains a significant monument in experimental rock music.