New Radiohead: Play By Play

RADIOHEAD – IN RAINBOWS

by Annie Zaleski

Editor’s note: Our girl in the ‘Lou, Annie Zaleski, was one of the first yankee writers to blog-review the new Radiohead, for her blog at the Riverfront Times. Here’s all she wrote:

You know, Radiohead, I was just about to go to sleep when I checked my email one last time. And lo and behold, the download code for your new CD, In Rainbows, popped up in my inbox. *sigh* I didn’t need sleep anyway.

Since the rest of the blogosphere is racing right now to review Rainbows, I figure I’d be a sheep and do the same thing. Let’s do a time-lapse chronicle of the proceedings. First listens, of course. While addled by fatigue. And I haven’t checked YouTube or bootleg sites for which of these songs have been released before, so excuse me if some of this is old news. (I saw Radiohead in a high school auditorium in 1997, so I have cred.)

12:30 a.m.: Link shows up. Among the technical mumbo jumbo is the phrase: WE HOPE YOU ENJOY ‘IN RAINBOWS’.