Kid A (CD) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Label: XL Recordings – XLCD782
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: North America (inc Mexico)
Released: 2016
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Experimental, IDM

1        Everything In Its Right Place    4:11
2        Kid A    4:45
3        The National Anthem
Horns – Hook Horns
Musician [Hook Horns], Alto Horn – Martin Hathaway, Steve Hamilton
Musician [Hook Horns], Baritone Saxophone [Baritone] – Stan Harrison
Musician [Hook Horns], Bass Trombone – Mike Kearsey
Musician [Hook Horns], Tenor Saxophone [Tenor] – Andy Hamilton (7), Mark Lockheart
Musician [Hook Horns], Trombone – Liam Kerkman
Musician [Hook Horns], Trumpet – Andy Bush
Sampler [Rhythm Sampling] – Henry Binns
4:52
4        How To Disappear Completely    5:56
5        Treefingers    3:43
6        Optimistic    5:16
7        In Limbo    3:31
8        Idioteque    5:09
9        Morning Bell    4:36
10        Motion Picture Soundtrack    6:59

Artwork [Landscapes, Knives And Glue] – Tchock*, Stanley*
Conductor [The Orchestra... Conducted By] – John Lubbock
Directed By [Assistant To The Directors] – Gerard Navarro
Directed By [Recording Directed By... With] – Radiohead
Directed By [Recording Directed By] – Nigel Godrich
Engineer [Additional Engineering] – Gerard Navarro, Graeme Stewart
Engineer [Engineered] – Nigel Godrich
Gaffer – Plank (3)
Mastered By – Chris Blair
Mixed By – Nigel Godrich
Orchestra – The Orchestra Of St. Johns*
Score [The Orchestra... Scored By] – Jonny Greenwood
Typography [The Font Used... To Write Radiohead In Is Made By] – Buro Destruct*
Written-By – Radiohead
Place of manufacture as stated on label. Printed in NA.

[Note]:
The track 'Idioteque' contains two samples from the Oddyssey label title 'First Recordings - Electronic Music Winners' (1976). The two compositions sampled are Paul Lansky's 'Mild Und Liese' published by Grim Tim Music and 'Short Piece' by Arthur Kreiger published by The Subito Music Corporation. Both samples are used with the kind permission of the composers and The Sony Music Corporation.
Barcode (As printed): 634904078225
Barcode (As printed): 6 34904 07822 5

Includes a 28-page booklet. Radiohead: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, Phil Selway. KID A won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. It was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award in the categories of Album Of The Year and Best Engineered Album. This limited edition of KID A comes as a enlarged digipack book designed by Stanley and Tchock. Radiohead: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, Phil Selway. KID A won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. It was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award in the categories of Album Of The Year and Best Engineered Album. In the wake of OK Computer, it became taken for granted among serious rock fans of all ages that Radiohead not only saved rock from itself, but paved the way toward the future. High praise, but given the static nature of rock in the last half of the '90s, it was easy to see why fans and critics eagerly harnessed their hopes to the one great rock band that wanted to push the limits of its creativity, without grandstanding or pandering. Daunting expectations for anyone, even for a band eager to meet them, so it's little wonder that Kid A was so difficult to complete. Radiohead's creative breakthrough arrived when the band embraced electronica -- which was nearly a clich? by the end of the '90s, when everyone from U2 to Rickie Lee Jones dabbled in trip-hop or techno. The difference is that the wholehearted conversion on Kid A fits, since OK Computer had already flirted with electronica and its chilly feel. Plus, instead of simply adding club beats or sonic collage techniques, Radiohead strove for the unsettling "intelligent techno" sound of Autechre and Aphex Twin, with skittering beats and stylishly dark sonic surfaces. To their immense credit, Radiohead don't sound like carpetbaggers, because they share the same post-post-modern vantage point as their inspirations. As perhaps befitting an album that's coolly, self-consciously alienating, Kid A takes time to unfold; multiple plays are necessary just to discern the music's form, to get a handle on quiet, drifting, minimally arranged songs with no hooks. This emphasis on texture, this reliance on elliptical songs, means that Kid A is easily the most successful electronica album from a rock band: it doesn't even sound like the work of a rock band, even if it does sound like Radiohead. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: CD standard Jewel Case
• Format: CD
• Genre: ALT/INDIE
• Format Type: CD
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**
• Released: 5/20/16
• Internal ID: JITRE