If i look back to the time when In Rainbows was released, i dint understand some of the songs at all for a few days in fact for a few months, my mind would just cease to operate when songs like Jigsaw falling into its place or BodySnatchers would be played. I loved the rest of the album and Reckoner and Wierd fishes instantly became part of hundreds of repeated plays. House of cards and Nude were songs i dint want to listen to cause some how they were the haunting songs of the album for me. Some of the songs like How I disappear completely, Pyramid Song, There There from the previous albums are still the haunting songs which continue to scare the shit out of me.
The ‘King of Limbs’ arrived after a long long wait. Everyday i was constantly getting disturbed for not being able to listen to any other music/musician for a good number of times and actually liking them, i found myself switching back to Radiohead over and again. None of the music i heard stayed in my mind for even a few days. Now the desire to listen something new from the band was building up so much so that i stopped listening to music (any music) for a few days. Now as this album has arrived, it pissed me off at the first instance just like In Rainbows did for not being what i wanted to hear from the band, the sounds of Kid A, Amnesiac, Ok Computer were reverberating so loud in my ear that i wouldn’t accept that In Rainbows was actually out and it was in its entirety how it sounded. My listening ability (comprehending) to music by Radiohead diminished to such a low level that my mind wouldnt correlate to some of the tracks at all. Something similar has happened this time again, it could be because of various reasons, firstly i was so pissed to see that my download contained only 8 tracks which left me with little but no option to fall back to the same dismal number of tracks over and again as this time i wont get the liberty to shun some of the songs and not listen to them or choose to listen to them later and also tracks like Separator, Little by Little and Codex were real hard to get a grasp upon in the first few listens.
Its been a episode of madness till now, Codex, Give up the Ghosts, Feral and Separator have all become the haunting songs for me which means i will be giving them very few listens and will mostly dig Bloom, Morning Mr Magpie, Little by Little and the instant connect Lotus Flower. So 4 haunting songs in a 8 track album is haunting in itself, so this in a way is a haunting album thus far. The haunting songs actually end being the ones which i love a lot and yearn for over and again, which is primarily when i am high i wont listen to anything but them.
I am desperately hoping that TKOL2 will be out soon and i will have more options out.
PS: I will still put Jigsaw and Body snatchers in a separate league altogether as they are something else which is still taking time for me to comprehend in entirety, they are not the haunting songs but really something else.
(Source: fidelmehra.com)
