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| Pitchfork |
 Radiohead has a reputation for studio perfectionism and have been known to tinker with arrangements for years on tour, but they've rarely delivered an album as obsessive as The King of Limbs. Their most single-minded record, TKOL is an itchy and restless foray into making songs out of almost nothing except whizzing bits of rhythm. Even accounting for the brief dip into balladry toward the end, bands don't generally come up with something this uniformly dense and tense by tweaking over multiple sessions. But as longtime students of Can's Holger Czukay, Radiohead also know that fevered and compulsive-sounding records can be the product of painstaking editing, stitching multiple takes into one bristling rush.Little of the band's careful detail work, or their general sense of passion, makes it onto TKOL RMX 1234567, a listenable but ultimately bloodless collection of remixes of songs from The King of Limbs. Whether intimidated by the thought of reinterpreting a band renowned for experimentation or unsure how to take apart and reassemble the band's tightly-wound recent material, too many of these 19 artists seem content to settle for bland beauty, or simply apply their usual sonic tricks without pushing themselves in the slightest. The highlights are the tracks that take TKOL's joy in rhythm to new places. Acclaimed UK neo-rave producer Lone turns out a typically brilliant take on "Feral" that somehow keeps the original percussion pattern intact while recasting it as an early-1990s ambient house record, giving us TKOL RMX's most bizarrely enjoyable image: Radiohead gone to Ibizia. Pearson Sound, the alter-ego of dubstep progenitor and Hessle Audio label head Ramadanman, pulls a fantastic bait-and-switch, opening with an extended drone intro that shifts into a punchy mix of early Detroit techno and jagged jungle breaks. These two, along with a small handful of other acts-- Anstam squeezing drama from just a handful of skeletal drum patterns, SBTRKT recasting Thom Yorke as a forlorn garage diva, Caribou returning to his roots as a left-field beatmaker-- are fearless enough to recreate the feeling of TKOL in a new form. And a few do get by on sheer loveliness alone, like Four Tet spinning "Separator" into an old-school IDM lullaby....full text |
| Slantmagazine |
| Radiohead's The King of Limbs, which, in retrospect, plays more like a pasted-together EP of leftovers from singer Thom Yorke's solo debut, The Eraser, than a proper studio effort, hasn't aged well, with "Bloom" being the only track among the album's sparse, forgettable offerings to leave a lasting impression. Which might explain why the song's been reworked a whopping eight times on TKOL RMX 1234567, a super-collection of remixes that expands on The King of Limbs's natural proclivity toward forboding, glitch-obssessed dubstep. Serving as a kind of consolation prize for fans who deserpately read into a coy lyric from the song "Separator," expecting a sequel to The King of Limbs, TKOL RMX 1234567's menu of remixers includes enough heavyhitters (Caribou, Four Tet) and fresh faces (SBTRKT, Jamie xx) to keep things interesting, far more successfully capturing the atmospheric dissonance Radiohead was aiming for on the original album. (Considering Yorke's obsession with club music and his newfound alliances with electronic producers like Flying Lotus, it's worth musing whether Radiohead produced a formless chunk of an album just so it could get reinterpreted later on.) Of course, that doesn't change the fact that TKOL RMX 1234567 is essentially a re-draft of an average album. Its collaborators have only so much to work with, with the daunting task of infusing dynamism into the The King of Limbs's lazy gloom while still keeping a semblance of its original tracks. There are some standouts: Brokenchord's take on "Give Up the Ghost" is wonderfully chunky, blending anxious synths reminiscent of Hail to the Thief's "Where I End and You Begin" with a monstrous, slowed-down percussion assault straight from the Salem school of witch house, while Jamie xx brings a stuttering, bell-like ecstacy to "Bloom," by far the best of the album's eight versions....full text |
| Hipmag |
| Daca esti fan Radiohead, cu siguranta stii deja despre ultimele lor trackuri care au tot iesit la suprafata internetului in ultima vreme. Remixurile (pentru ca despre ele e vorba) au fost adunate pe un album dublu numit TKOL RMX 1234567 (ultima parte a numelui albumului anunta cele 7 melodii incluse). Printre cele mai reusite remixuri se numara Four Tet – Separator, Jamie XX – Bloom si Modeselektor – Good Evening Mrs Magpie....full text |
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