AUDE Listening Session: Radiohead, Kid A

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AUDE Listening Session

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Aude presents: A deep listening experience with your favorite album. "Live a sensory and deep experience listening to complete albums in a welcoming environment. Relax on comfortable sofas, enjoy dim lighting and let yourself be surrounded by the best sound. Discover music like never before, without interruptions, and connect intensely with each album, alone or in company." THE ALBUM: Oxford, October 2000. OK Computer turned Radiohead into the most important band on the planet. Thom Yorke falls into depression. What follows are nearly three years of creative block, chaotic sessions in Paris, Copenhagen and Oxfordshire, and an entire band reinventing itself without knowing where to go. Jonny Greenwood abandons the guitar to explore the Martenot waves and string arrangements. Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway replace guitars and drums with sequencers. Yorke becomes obsessed with Aphex Twin and the complete Warp Records catalog. Kid A is released on October 2, 2000. No single. No music video. No conventional tour — instead, a custom-built tent, without corporate logos, across Europe. The album had been leaked in full on Napster weeks before its release. The band did nothing to prevent it. Electronica, post-rock, chamber jazz, ambient, musique concrète. Everything in Its Right Place. How to Disappear Completely. Idioteque. Motion Picture Soundtrack — a song about pills and loneliness that closes the album with impossible beauty. Number one in the UK. Radiohead's first number one on the US Billboard 200 — without a single. Critics were split: those who called it the most important album of the year and those who called it a heavy joke. Thom Yorke said that during that week in the United States "we were The Beatles." Rolling Stone named it the best album of the decade 2000-2009. Pitchfork gave it a 10 out of 10 in its reissue. The album that opened the 21st century still has no equivalent. Practical information Duration:

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