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Kid A

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In the Radiohead canon, Kid A is the equivalent to the elephant in the living room. You simply cannot avoid talking about it; you can’t, for that matter, avoid mentioning it every couple of minutes. Indeed, practically any Radiohead-related conversation you have is going to have to make reference to it at some point. Lots of people got very tired of talking about Kid A rather quickly (though most of these people are the sorts of folks who await the opportunity to publicly announce that they have grown bored as eagerly as children await the coming of Christmas: that is to say, crashing bores), but I hope that by now they’ve at least gotten comfortable hearing about it, because it’s going to be a touchstone of conversations about Radiohead for some time to come. This is right and good. It was the album that followed OK Computer, whose eloquence and depth of feeling in describing the emotional impotence of our generation (an impotence wrongly characterized as anomie, which characterizatio

Kid A In the Radiohead canon, Kid A is the equivalent to the elephant in the living room. You simply cannot avoid talking about it; you can’t, for that matter, avoid mentioning it every couple of minutes. Indeed, practically any Radiohead-related conversation you have is going to have to make reference to it at some point. Lots of people got very tired of talking about Kid A rather quickly (though most of these people are the sorts of folks who await the opportunity to publicly announce that they have grown bored as eagerly as children await the coming of Christmas: that is to say, crashi

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