It was ironic that news of Radiohead’s latest album came like a flash while early morning risers were still scanning Facebook for lingering commentary of the previous night’s Grammy Awards. Indeed, the undisputed sovereigns of post-rock had slipped quietly through the night, undetected even by those who considered Esperanza Spalding a shoo-in for Best New Artist. But here we are in the wake of Radiohead’s latest foray into the great unknown—The King Of Limbs—a “newspaper album” named as such for the large collection of artwork that accompanies the physical version, or because it reports on the current state of its creators, or maybe it’s a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the “hear today, gone tomorrow” nature of today’s recorded music product. With Radiohead, there’s rarely one definitive answer. No doubt you’ve already heard bits and pieces of it, so let’s get on with the show.
