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[In Rainbows]
Radiohead: Nude (XL Recordings)
More sonic wanderings from Radioheads number one album, In Rainbows.
This is particularly interesting, because they seem to have lost their magicof years gone by, and I mean years. This mournful 4 minutes and 15 secondsworth of drivel reaffirms my belief that Thom Yorke and co have, well, totallylost their way.
As an audio experience its melodic, drifting, inoffensive, but ultimately,extremely dull. Time was that this sort of release would have been deemednothing more than an album filler.
Fans will, inevitably, lap it up, even if theyre most overrated band ever.
The 7 b side is 4 Minute Warning and the CD also features Down IsThe New Up, both tracks were previously only available on the In Rainbows box set.
For information on tour date visit:Radiohead.com
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Radiohead, iTunes and Garageband are giving fans the opportunity to remix theband’s new single “Nude” atradioheadremix.com
To make remixing easy, the separate stems* from the song will be availableto purchase from iTunes. The stems available are bass, voice, guitar, strings, fxand drums. Fans can mix them in any way they like, either by adding their ownbeats and instrumentation, or just remixing the original parts.
Fans who purchase all five stems from iTunes during the first week they’reavailable, will be sent an access code to a GarageBand file ready to open inGarageBand or Logic. However, you dont need GarageBand to do a remix, all thestems are available in iTunes Plus and compatible with several music softwareplatforms.
Finished mixes can be uploaded to the site above where the public will listenand vote for their favourite remix (voting ends May 1st). Fans can also createa widget allowing votes from their own website, Facebook or MySpace page tobe counted as mix votes back on the site.
Nude is out now in the UK on CD, 7 and download.
(*stems are the component parts of the song).
Elly Roberts passed away in 2011, but he was a man who was so passionate about all types of music and loved meeting his musical heroes, such as Mick Hucknall at a book signing at the Trafford Centre, Manchester in 2007.
A former teacher and also a music journalist, DJ and radio presenter on local community station Calon FM, plus appearances on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio 2, Elly started doing reviews for DVDfever.co.uk in 2004 and he did the majority of the CD and concerts reviews on the website.
I know also that he loved getting away for the summer to Spain and I hope that wherever he is now he is enjoying the hot sunshine and, as one of his friends has said on his Facebook page, that he is interviewing his musical heroes.