Really starting to get into this album, quite a bit more than I thought I would at first. 
I think the genius of this band since ( or perhaps beginning with )
OK Computer has been their ability to make very complex and often very synthetic, mathematical music and infuse it with melody and humanity. It's a difficult feat to pull off but nobody does it better. I think
King Of Limbs perhaps does a better job of this than
Kid A or
Amnesiac did but the folks who are waiting for a return to more conventional music a la The Bends who might have taken false hope from In Rainbows might argue that point. I personally find Radiohead's more recent music both difficult and challenging because their post-
OK Computer output runs contrary to everything I normally gravitate towards in music but they haven't made a record yet which hasn't been worth the effort involved in prying the oyster open to find the pearl concealed within. I just live in fear that the day may come where they really start taking the " most important band in the world " label seriously - that'll be where
I get off the bus. There's something about the Thom Yorke as ( spasmic ) Michael Jackson video for
Lotus Flower that I find unsettling as a long-time fan of the band...
D.
