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In Rainbows is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Radiohead.It was self-released on 10 October 2007 as a download, followed by a retail release internationally through XL Recordings on 3 December 2007 and in North America through TBD Records on 1 January 2008.
Weird Fish may refer to: Weird Fish (clothing brand) "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi", a song by Radiohead from their album In Rainbows; Diversity of fish
Greenwood playing bowed guitar. Greenwood is Radiohead's lead guitarist. [112] He is known for his aggressive playing style. [16] Guitar.com wrote that Greenwood's playing on Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey, was an "exhilarating melange of tremolo-picked soundscapes, chunky octaves, screaming high-register runs and killswitch antics". [113]
Abingdon School, where Radiohead formed. The members of Radiohead met while attending Abingdon School, a private school for boys in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. [2] The guitarist and singer Thom Yorke and the bassist Colin Greenwood were in the same year; the guitarist Ed O'Brien was one year above, and the drummer Philip Selway was in the year above O'Brien. [3]
Radiohead debuted "Cut a Hole" on the King of Limbs tour in 2012. [81] The song builds gradually to a climax, with "menacing" lyrics about a "long-distance connection". [ 81 ] NME described it as "an atmospheric, shifting gloomathon" with a "head-flung-back vocal from Thom, climaxing with some of his highest notes since OK Computer ".
The chord progression follows a sequence of C add9 –Em–Em 6 –G–G sus4 –D–D add4 –EM 6. [75] The song begins with a discordant string harmony, [77] then a strummed D ninth chord acoustic guitar played by Yorke, [78] backed by B ♭ string tunes, creating a dissonant noise that moves between the D major and F ♯ minor chords. [77]
"Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" was also played, as was "Nude", although both of these songs date back to before the 2006 tour. The tour is notable as these versions of the songs were often very different from the eventual In Rainbows incarnations. Radiohead also played the V Festival, as well as gigs throughout Europe, the UK, Canada and the USA.
"These Are My Twisted Words" is composed in a 5 4 time signature. [9] It opens with a motorik beat from the drummer, Philip Selway, before Yorke's vocal enters. [10] [11] Daniel Kreps of Rolling Stone noted a krautrock influence and likened the song to the In Rainbows track "Weird Fishes / Arpeggi". [4]