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Radiohead new album: Making 'In Rainbows' was like making 'Kid A'

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Jonny Greenwood speaks about new album

Radiohead have compared the making of new album ’In Rainbows’ to making 'Kid A'.

Guitarist Johnny Greenwood said that album was difficult to make.

“We spent a long time deciding if [the songs] were good enough," he explained. "None of them were easy, actually.“

Greenwood compared the making of ’In Rainbows’ to ’Kid A’, telling The Gothamist: ”It was more like earlier ’Kid A’ stuff, more based in studio experiments and trying out ideas and spending quite a long time. That’s what we did with ’Kid A’ and [B]’Amnesiac’.

Read NME.COM's first review of 'In Rainbows'.


Also, as there is currently no artwork to go with 'In Rainbows', NME.COM has created some to fill in the gap. Head to the NME Office blog now and get some free MP3 player/ CD-R friendly artwork.


Also check out NME.COM’s brief history of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Phil Selway, Colin Greenwood and Ed O’Brien from their days as On A Friday to Radiohead’s release of 'In Rainbows' now.

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