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Radiohead's latest and greatest album, The King of Limbs, is a testament to a band that refuses to stay stagnant. Album to album Radiohead is known for reinventing their sound and never letting themselves just coast off a previous effort or build off of an already established sound. They find new ways to produce uniquely amazing music and influence the entire music industry time and time again.
The King of Limbs has actually somewhat broken from that mold. Breaking from a mold of always breaking your mold may seem counter-intuitive or even just like broken logic, but that is the beauty of this latest effort in that it is by far the most unified and diverse Radiohead album yet released.
The King of Limbs brings together elements from everything that came before it. At a scant 37 minutes and just eight tracks it will leave you yearning for more. The opening track, "Bloom," enters with some of the a-melodic piano we got used to in Kid A, then starts to merge with a sound more reminiscent from In Rainbows, before later in the song getting in to the more faded electronic style of The Bends with long held discordant notes built over with layers and layers of movement.