Holy flirking Scnhit Radiohead is U2!!

You don’t believe me? You think like this twit that the new album sounds like Kid A, except that now the use traditional instruments (NOTE: So what he’s trying to say is there are melodies but they aren’t played on synths and drum machines - how that makes the album Kid A-esque is beyond me). You really don’t think that “Reckonor” couldn’t be the best U2 track of the last decade? Come here so I can hit you.

This is the most straightforward and melodic record in Radiohead’s catalog. There, I said it. Gone is the “you have to listen to it a million times to get all the nuances” mix by Nigel Godrich. The story of each track is immediately present, there is no need to aurally unwrap each track. And that's not a bad thing when the melodies are as engaging as they are here. (See Reckonor, House of Cards).

The album is full of bright, supple guitar chords. Selway and Greenwood The Lesser swing on all the midtempo grooves – you’d might swear this is a Wilco album. Bright melodies dominate the record.

Ironically, the album's best track is “All I Need.” It perfectly merges the electronic experiments of Kid A with a brilliant melody and live band play that made OK computer so beloved (and so missed). It’s like “Idioteque” and “Let Down” fucked and then gave birth to this supermodel baby. I’ll call it today: “All I Need” makes the greatest hits disc.

Elsewhere, Radiohead devotees will hear lots of familiar sounds – Bodysnatchers riff sounds like a hybrid of “Polyethalene” and “Palo Alto.” Videotape sounds eerily like “How I made My Millions” – even that weird clicking noise in the background. “Faust Arp” is “Wolf at the Door” part deux.

They say you get what you pay for. And one might have feared that a band willing to give away its album had nothing of value to sell. I’m happy to have found a bargain in my inbox this morning.