Radiohead - In Rainbows (CD)

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  • Label Xl Recordings
  • Format CD, Album
  • Format details Import
  • Media 1 x CD
  • Release date May 20, 2016
  • Originally released Oct 10, 2007
  • Region UK
  • Genres Rock
  • Section Rock & Pop
  • Catalog number XLCD324
  • UPC 634904032425
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XL Recordings issued In Rainbows on compact disc under catalog number XLCD324, the number Radiohead's own W.A.S.T.E. store still lists against the CD. Ten songs, one disc, 42 minutes and 45 seconds. It is not the discbox, which paired the album with two heavyweight 45 RPM 12-inch records and a second disc of eight further songs inside a hardcover book and slipcase, and which Radiohead sold only from their own website, shipping from December 2007.

This is the edition XL handled outside North America, which is why it reaches the United States as an import. TBD Records took North America, releasing the album there on January 1, 2008, with BMG in Japan and Remote Control Records in Australia. Radiohead kept ownership of the recordings and compositions and licensed them out rather than signing them over, and the 2007 copyright line on this release records the recordings as licensed to XL Recordings Ltd by LLLP LLP.

XL's CD came in a card package rather than a printed jewel case, holding the disc, a lyric booklet and a sheet of stickers meant to be applied to a blank case as cover art.

The opening track, "15 Step," is in a quintuple meter over a handclap rhythm, with cheers recorded by children from the Matrix Arts Centre in Oxfordshire. "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" uses a phasing technique Radiohead took from the American composer Steve Reich. For "All I Need," Jonny Greenwood had a string section play every note of the scale at once, after deciding he wanted the white noise a band makes playing loudly in a room and never gets in a studio. "Nude" had been recorded during the OK Computer sessions in 1997 and set aside; Colin Greenwood wrote a new bassline for it here, which Nigel Godrich said turned it from something very straight into something with much more rhythmic flow.

By October 2008 the album had sold more than three million copies worldwide. "House of Cards," the video above and the eighth song on the disc, was nominated at the 51st Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and for Best Rock Song.

Tracklist

  1. 15 Step
  2. Bodysnatchers
  3. Nude
  4. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
  5. All I Need
  6. Faust Arp
  7. Reckoner
  8. House Of Cards
  9. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
  10. Videotape

Complete the Collection

Eleven Radiohead albums sit on the shelf here, counting this one:

UPC: 634904032425
Label: Xl Recordings
Release Date: 5.20.16
Format: CD