Radiohead's Kid A (33 1/3)
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"A growing Alexandria of rock criticism - Los Angeles Times, 2008 Ideal for the rock geek who thinks liner notes just aren't enough - Rolling Stone One of the coolest publishing imprints on the planet" --Bookslut
'For a ridiculously daunting subject, Lin does an extraordinary job of engaging the reader in the labyrinth of excursions and theories that Kid A offers. … he asks a combination of all the right questions that music critics and theorists should ask but never becomes muddled by the highbrow concepts and myths of Kid A.' --Stereosubversion.com
'For a ridiculously daunting subject, Lin does an extraordinary job of engaging the reader in the labyrinth of excursions and theories that Kid A offers. … he asks a combination of all the right questions that music critics and theorists should ask but never becomes muddled by the highbrow concepts and myths of Kid A.' --Stereosubversion.com
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This is a brilliant exploration of Radiohead's game-changing album, looking at its place in the career of "The World's Best Band" with ten years of hindsight. Radiohead's Kid A never had a chance on paper. Not only did the band have the unenviable task of following up the near-universally lauded "OK Computer", but Kid A didn't even have an official single or video. Neither did it help that the band largely abandoned rock-pop conventions for a sound that traversed glitch, free-jazz, modern composition, and krautrock. Rather than simply reinforcing Kid A's canonical status, Marvin Lin situates the album in the temporal, examining it from various philosophical and cultural interpretations of time in order to arrive at its political and social stakes. Why should we care how time is expressed through its aesthetic components like repetition, sampling, and hybridization? Where does the album subvert our sense of time with songs like "Treefingers"? In which ways does it attempt to transcend time and with what implications? Time is perhaps art's biggest enemy - all human creations will be erased eventually - but it's through these various articulations that we are able to uncover some of the most interesting insights about Kid A. For more information on the series and on individual titles in the series, check out our blog.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Full of interesting facts and ways of looking at the album, it covers just about everything there is to say about the songs and what got Radiohead there. I'm just not sure at all about how it's all linked up and about the main idea that says again and again that the album is about time and how it messes with it. At no point is all this gibberish convincing, or convincingly linked to the album itself... it could be about any album really. Feels like a very long essay with mazing content but very lousily brought together. C-
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was really looking forward to this book, but was sorely disappointed by it. Instead of being an in depth study, it is a relatively cursory look at elements of the album coupled with an in depth justification by Marvin Lin of his particular angle on the album - that it is all about time.
It could have been interesting as a relatively small section of the book, but as the central part of that it comes across as being pretentious.
Kid A is an amazing album, and this book just doesn't do it justice, although it tries very hard.
It could have been interesting as a relatively small section of the book, but as the central part of that it comes across as being pretentious.
Kid A is an amazing album, and this book just doesn't do it justice, although it tries very hard.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book for my boyfriend. He was extremely happy to have one of the 33 1/3 books as he says these are fantastic. This one, on Radioheads KidA is very informative and a joy to read. Marvin Lin captures these albums fantastically.
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