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Kid A is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 2 October 2000 by Parlophone.It was recorded with their producer, Nigel Godrich, in Paris, Copenhagen, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.
Kid A Mnesia contains the Radiohead albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), plus a third disc, Kid Amnesiae, comprising previously unreleased material from the Kid A and Amnesiac recording sessions. [1] The albums are not remastered. [2] The "deluxe" edition also contains an art book and Kid Amnesiette, a cassette edition with five B-sides. [3]
For live performances, Radiohead recreate the effect by manipulating Yorke's vocals with Kaoss Pads. [15] The lead guitarist, Jonny Greenwood, said the song was a turning point in the making of Kid A: "We knew it had to be the first song, and everything just followed after it."
Reviewing Kid A in 2000, NME's Keith Cameron wrote that the song sees Radiohead's "return to the big ballad template, as massed strings swoon and Yorke's voice soars transcendentally for the first time". [106] The Rolling Stone critic David Fricke wrote that the song "moves like an ice floe: cold-blue folk rock with just a faint hint of heartbeat."
[1] [3] Kid A followed in October 2000, topping the charts in the UK and becoming first number-one Radiohead album on the US Billboard 200. [3] [5] Amnesiac was released in May 2001, topping the UK charts and producing the singles "Pyramid Song" and "Knives Out". Hail to the Thief was released in June 2003, ending Radiohead's contract with EMI ...
If the rest of Kid A looked to expand Radiohead listeners' boundaries, 'Optimistic' was the band's way of showing what it could already do within the old ones." He ranked the song as the band's 21st-best. [12] April Clare Welsh of NME said that it is "probably the most Bends-like track Kid A has to offer", ranking it as the 5th best on the ...
Kid A: Nigel Godrich Radiohead 2000 [50] "If You Say the Word" Kid A Mnesia: Nigel Godrich Radiohead 2021 [53] "Ill Wind" A Moon Shaped Pool (special edition) Nigel Godrich 2016 [60] "In Limbo" Kid A: Nigel Godrich Radiohead 2000 [50] "India Rubber" B-side to "Fake Plastic Trees" Radiohead 1995 [55] "Inside My Head" B-side to "Creep" Sean Slade ...
Kid A Mnesia Exhibition was conceived as a physical installation artwork to be constructed from shipping containers and exhibited in cities around the world. [5] The Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke, and the artist Stanley Donwood, who together create the artwork for Radiohead albums, imagined a "a huge red construction" that would look "as if a brutalist spacecraft had crash-landed into the ...