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In Rainbows
In Rainbows Recording with producer Nigel Godrich, Radiohead
worked on In Rainbows for more than two years, begin-
ning in early 2005. In between recording, the band toured
Europe and North America for three months in mid-2006.
The songwriting on In Rainbows was more personal than
that on Radiohead’s other albums, with singer Thom
Yorke describing most tracks as his versions of "seduc-
tion songs".[1] Radiohead incorporated a wide variety of
musical styles and instruments on the album, using not
only electronic music and string arrangements, but also
pianos, celestes, and the ondes Martenot.
Upon its retail release, In Rainbows entered the UK Al-
bums Chart and the US Billboard 200 at number one; by
October 2008, it had sold more than three million copies
worldwide in both digital and physical formats. The al-
Studio album by Radiohead bum earned widespread critical acclaim, and was ranked
as one of the best albums of 2007 by several publications.
Released 10 October 2007
In 2009, the record won two Grammy Awards for Best Al-
Recorded February 2005 – June 2007 ternative Music Album and Best Special Limited Edition
Package.
Genre Alternative rock
Length 42:43
Production
Label Self-released
Producer Nigel Godrich Recording
After a break from writing and recording in 2004, Radio-
Radiohead chronology
head began work on their seventh studio album in mid-
Hail to the Thief In Rainbows The King of Limbs February 2005.[2] Regular recording sessions began in Au-
(2003) (2007) (2011) gust 2005, with the band updating fans on their progress
intermittently in their new blog, Dead Air Space. Record-
Singles from In Rainbows ing continued into early 2006, but the sessions were slow.
According to Yorke, "we spent a long time in the studio
1. "Jigsaw Falling into Place" just not going anywhere, wasting our time, and that was
Released: 14 January 2008
really, really frustrating."[3] The delay was attributed to
2. "Nude"
Released: 31 March 2008 difficulty regaining momentum after their break,[3] and
3. "House of Cards"/"Bodysnatchers" the lack of both a deadline and producer to push things
Released: May 2008 forward.[4] In the February 2006 sessions, they chose to
4. "Reckoner" work with producer Mark Stent instead of their longtime
Released: 23 September 2008
co-producer Nigel Godrich.[5] Bassist Colin Greenwood,
commenting on their decision, said "Nigel and the band
In Rainbows is the seventh studio album by the English
know each other so well now, it’s all got a little too
rock band Radiohead. It was first released on 10 October
safe."[4] Although the band had written several new
2007 as a digital download self-released, that customers
songs by this point, little came of the recording sessions
could order for whatever price they saw fit, followed by
with Stent, which ended in April 2006.
a standard CD release in most countries during the last
The band decided to tour again, giving themselves a
week of 2007. The album was released in North America
goal to work toward. Commenting on their preparation
on 1 January 2008 on TBD Records. In Rainbows was Ra-
for the tour, Yorke said "suddenly everyone is being
diohead’s first release after the end of their contract with
spontaneous and no one’s self-conscious because you’re
EMI and the end of the longest gap between studio al-
not in the studio ... it felt like being 16 again."[3] In May
bums in their career.
and June 2006, Radiohead toured major cities in Europe
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(the last two being retitled "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" and
"Jigsaw Falling into Place", respectively). The song
"Nude", which premiered live during the OK Computer
world tour, was finally released in 2007 on In Rainbows,
albeit with a different arrangement. "Reckoner" which
originally premiered live in 2001, was also released on
this album, but in a completely different form; Yorke and
guitarist Jonny Greenwood worked on extra material for
the song and subsequently abandoned the original mate-
rial.[15]
On the opening track "15 Step", the band enlisted the
help of a group of children from the Matrix Music School
& Arts Centre in Oxford.[16] Colin Greenwood and Go-
Radiohead performing live at the Greek Theatre, Berkeley, Cali- drich originally set out to record handclaps for the song,
fornia during their 2006 tour but when the clapping proved "not quite good enough",
they decided to record the children cheering instead.[1]
and North America, returning to Europe for several festi- "Bodysnatchers", a song Yorke described as sounding
vals in August. Radiohead played in smaller venues such like Wolfmother and "Neu! meets dodgy hippy rock",[4]
as clubs and theatres during the tour, which was their was recorded when he was in a period of "hyperactive
first in several years. The band also played larger music mania".[1] On "All I Need", Jonny Greenwood wanted to
festivals such as Bonnaroo and V; they headlined V and recapture the white noise generated by a band playing
played their longest live concert in years at Bonnaroo, a loudly in a room, a sound which never occurs in the stu-
28-song set.[6][7] During their live sets, the band included dio. His solution was to have a string section play every
songs they were working on in the studio.[3] note of the scale, blanketing the frequencies.[17] Yorke
After the tour, the band restarted recording sessions described the process of composing "Videotape" as "ab-
with Godrich in October 2006, at Tottenham Court House solute agony", stating that the song "went through every
in Marlborough, Wiltshire, a condemned mansion de- possible parameter". One day, Yorke left the studio, re-
scribed by guitarist Ed O’Brien as an "old country pile ... turning to find that Godrich and Jonny Greenwood had
crumbling at the seams." Recording, in contrast to their stripped the song down to the version found on the al-
deadlocked 2005 sessions, was productive; final versions bum, a minimal piano ballad.[18]
of "Jigsaw Falling into Place" and "Bodysnatchers" were Yorke has said that the album’s lyrics are based on
recorded at the house.[8] Yorke said on Dead Air Space "that anonymous fear thing, sitting in traffic, thinking,
that the band have "started the record properly now ... ’I’m sure I’m supposed to be doing something else’ ... it’s
starting to get somewhere I think. Finally."[9] Further similar to OK Computer in a way. It’s much more terrify-
sessions at Halswell House, Taunton, and Godrich’s ing."[19] At the same time, Yorke felt "there’s very lit-
Hospital Studios in Covent Garden, where the band tle anger in In Rainbows. It’s in no way political, or, at
recorded "Videotape" and put together a final version of least, doesn’t feel that way to me. It very much explores
"Nude", took place in late December 2006.[8] In mid-Jan- the ideas of transience. It starts in one place and ends
uary 2007 Radiohead resumed their recording sessions somewhere completely different."[20] In another inter-
in their Oxfordshire studio, and started to post photos, view, Yorke said the album was "about the fucking panic
lyrics, videos and samples of new songs on Dead Air of realising you’re going to die! And that any time soon [I
Space.[10] In late April, Yorke stated that Radiohead had could] possibly [have] a heart attack when I next go for a
a CD of material ready for consideration.[11] In June, Go- run."[21]
drich posted clippings of the mixed songs on Dead Air Ed O’Brien described the lyrics, saying "They were
Space, including "Jigsaw Falling into Place" (known as universal. There wasn’t a political agenda. It’s being hu-
"Open Pick" throughout 2006 performances),[12] "Down man."[22] The song "Bodysnatchers" is inspired by Victo-
Is the New Up", "Bangers + Mash", "All I Need", "Faust rian ghost stories, the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives and
Arp" and "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi".[13] Recording having Yorke’s feeling of "your physical consciousness trapped
wrapped up in June, Bob Ludwig mastered the album in without being able to connect fully with anything
July 2007 at Gateway Mastering, New York City.[14] else."[17] "Jigsaw Falling into Place" is about a set of ob-
servations and different experiences, partly of the chaos
Music and lyrical content witnessed by Yorke when he used to go out on the week-
end in Oxford. Yorke said "The lyrics are quite caus-
The album features many of the tracks debuted on Radio-
tic—the idea of ’before you’re comatose’ or whatever,
head’s 2006 tour, including "15 Step", "Bodysnatchers",
drinking yourself into oblivion and getting fucked-up to
"All I Need", "Videotape", "Arpeggi" and "Open Pick"
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forget ... [there] is partly this elation. But there’s a much are self-released by the band, while for the physical re-
darker side."[1] lease, the band licensed the music to record labels.[30]
The album’s licensing agreements for all releases contin-
Artwork ue to be managed by the band’s publisher, Warner Chap-
The In Rainbows artwork was designed by Stanley Don- pell Music Publishing.[30]
wood, who has worked with Yorke in designing Radio-
head’s album art since 1994.[23] Donwood worked in the Formats and promotion
studio as Radiohead were working on the album, which On 1 October 2007, Jonny Greenwood announced in a
allowed the mood of the music to be conveyed in the al- brief post on Dead Air Space, "Well, the new album is fin-
bum artwork,[20] and regularly put up images in the stu- ished, and it’s coming out in 10 days . . . We’ve called
dio and on the studio computer for the band to interact it In Rainbows".[31] Radiohead released the album as a
with and comment on. He also posted images daily on download available for order from inrainbows.com on
the band’s website, though none of the images were used 10 October 2007. In a Wired interview, Yorke explained
in the final album artwork.[24] Donwood experimented that "every record for the last four—including my solo
with a photographic etching technique, putting prints in- record—has been leaked. So the idea was like, we’ll leak
to acid baths with various results,[25] and throwing wax it, then."[18] Radiohead’s managers have said that they
at paper, creating images influenced by NASA’s space would not have released the album as they did unless
photographs.[20] Donwood originally planned to explore they were sure the physical CD would sell well.[32] Writ-
suburban life, but realised it did not fit the album’s ing about the unusual release method, Jon Pareles of The
sound, saying "it’s a sensual record and I wanted to do New York Times commented, "For the beleaguered record-
something more organic." Describing the album cover, ing business Radiohead has put in motion the most auda-
Donwood said: "It’s very colourful — I’ve finally em- cious experiment in years."[17]
braced colour! It’s a rainbow but it is very toxic, it’s more In order to distribute the album through inrain-
like the sort of one you’d see in a puddle." The band de- bows.com with minimal technical glitches, Radiohead
cided not to release the cover for the digital release of utilised the services of UK-based PacketExchange to by-
the album, preferring to hold it back for the physical re- pass public Internet servers, instead utilising a less-traf-
lease.[26] The "discbox" release of the album includes a ficked private network to deliver the digital download to
booklet containing additional artwork by Donwood.[25] users.[33] The download, packaged as a ZIP file, includ-
ed the ten album tracks encoded in 160 kbit/s DRM-free
Release MP3 format.[34] Upon purchase, the buyer was prompted
to type in their desired price, plus a credit card transac-
tion fee of 45 pence if purchased for more than 0 pence (a
Distribution widely-noted landmark use of Pay what you want for mu-
Having fulfilled their six-album contract with EMI with sic sales[17]). The staggered online release of the album
the release of 2003’s Hail to the Thief, Radiohead stated began at about 5:30 GMT on 10 October, but on 10 De-
after completion of In Rainbows that they had not made cember 2007, the official digital download was no longer
a decision on how to release their new material. At one made available.[35] A limited made-to-order "discbox",
point, Yorke hinted at the possibility of releasing singles available for pre-order through inrainbows.com, was re-
or EPs rather than an album.[27] However, he ruled out leased on 3 December 2007. It contained the album on CD
Internet-only distribution because he felt some fans and two 12" heavyweight 45 rpm vinyl records with art-
would not have the technological means to obtain the work and lyric booklets. The box included a second en-
new material.[3] Commenting on the band’s relationship hanced CD with eight additional tracks, as well as dig-
with EMI, he said, "We have no record contract as such ital photos and artwork. The overall set, packaged in a
... What we would like is the old EMI back again, the hardcover book and slipcase, was priced at £40 (approx.
nice genteel arms manufacturers who treated music [as] US$80), and also included the MP3 download.[36]
a nice side project who weren’t too bothered about the The album was released on CD and vinyl in Japan
shareholders. Ah well, not much chance of that."[28] by BMG on 26 December 2007,[37] in Australia on 29 De-
Shortly before the band began writing new songs for the cember 2007, by Remote Control Records[38] and in the
album, Yorke told Time, "I like the people at our record United States and Canada on 1 January 2008, by ATO im-
company, but the time is at hand when you have to ask print TBD Records and by MapleMusic/Fontana, respec-
why anyone needs one. And, yes, it probably would give tively.[39][40] Elsewhere around the world, the album was
us some perverse pleasure to say ’Fuck you’ to this decay- released on 31 December 2007, by independent record la-
ing business model."[29] Radiohead retained ownership of bel XL Recordings.[41] The CD release came in a cardboard
the album recordings and song compositions for In Rain- package containing the CD, lyric booklet and several art-
bows. The download and "discbox" versions of the album work stickers; this method of packaging encouraged a
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"do-it-yourself" style, whereupon the stickers were on the chart the following week. The record sold 122,000
placed on an unused jewel case to create a package.[42] copies in the United States in its first week of official re-
In Rainbows was also the first album in Radiohead’s cata- lease, according to SoundScan,[57] also making it the 10th
logue to be available for download in several digital mu- independently distributed album to reach number 1 on
sic stores upon its release, such as the iTunes Store and the Billboard 200.[58] In October 2008, the band’s pub-
Amazon MP3.[43] On New Year’s Eve 2007, Current TV lisher Warner Chappell Music Publishing revealed that
streamed a webcast of "Scotch Mist", a private concert the album had sold three million copies (including digital
filmed at Radiohead’s Oxford studios;[44] it not only fea- and physical format sales) since the album’s physical re-
tured the band performing In Rainbows’s songs, but also lease in January.[59] The vinyl edition of In Rainbows was
included poetry and footage created or selected by the the top selling vinyl album of 2008.[60]
band. A music video contest for In Rainbows was an- The band released "Jigsaw Falling into Place", "Nude"
nounced in March 2008, when Radiohead partnered with and "Reckoner" as singles from the album in the UK in
animation site AniBOOM to create a contest where en- early 2008; they reached number 30, number 21 and num-
trants put together storyboards for an animated music ber 74 on the UK Singles Chart, respectively.[61] In the
video. The winner, who would receive $10,000 to create U.S., "Nude" reached number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100,
a full length music video, was chosen by AniBOOM, Ra- and was also Radiohead’s first single to appear on the Bill-
diohead, TBD Records and Adult Swim, which aired the board Pop 100 chart, peaking at number 35. The album
winning video.[45] Since the band was impressed with the track "Bodysnatchers" reached number eight on the U.S.
overall quality of the contestants, it was later decided to Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart.[62] "Jigsaw Falling into
award $10,000 each to four different winners, plus $1,000 Place" charted more poorly, peaking at number 69 in air-
to each of ten semifinalists to create a one-minute length play on alternative rock-oriented stations.[63]
clip.[46] To promote the record, Radiohead embarked on
a tour of North America, Europe, South America and Ja- Critical reception
pan, which lasted from May 2008 until March 2009.[47][48] In Rainbows received widespread critical acclaim upon its
release, earning a rating of 88 out of 100 on Metacritic.[64]
Reception Rolling Stone gave the album four and a half stars out of
five. Reviewer Rob Sheffield summarised the album as
Sales and chart placings containing "No wasted moments, no weak tracks: just
primo Radiohead."[65] A review by NME described the al-
In early October 2007, a spokesman for the band reported bum as "Radiohead reconnecting with their human sides,
that "most people [paid] a normal retail price with very realising you [can] embrace pop melodies and proper in-
few trying to buy [the download version] for a penny" struments while still sounding like paranoid androids ...
and that most fans had preordered the discbox.[49] Citing this [is] otherworldly music, alright."[66] Allmusic, in a
a source close to the band, Gigwise.com reported that by positive review, noted that the album "will hopefully be
the day of its online release, the album had sold 1.2 mil- remembered as Radiohead’s most stimulating synthesis
lion copies.[50] The claim, however, has been dismissed of accessible songs and abstract sounds, rather than their
by band manager Bryce Edge as "exaggerated".[51] Ac- first pick-your-price download."[67] Entertainment Weekly
cording to an Internet survey conducted by Record of the was also appreciative, calling the album "the gentlest,
Day of 3,000 people, about one-third of people who down- prettiest Radiohead set yet ... [it uses] the full musical and
loaded the album paid nothing, with the average price emotional spectra to conjure breathtaking beauty".[68]
paid being £4.[52] When asked in a December 2007 inter- Various reviewers, such as The Guardian’s Alexis Petridis,
view by The Observer how many discboxes were ordered, attributed the album’s quality to the band’s performance
the band members responded with various answers rang- in the studio, claiming that the band sounded like they
ing between 60,000 and 80,000.[21] In October 2008, a re- were enjoying themselves.[69] Others, such as Billboard’s
port from Warner Chappell revealed that although most Jonathan Cohen, commended the album on not being
people paid nothing for the download, pre-release sales overshadowed by its marketing hype.[70] Newsweek
were more profitable than the total money from sales of ranked the album #5 on its list of the ten best albums of
Hail to the Thief. The report also stated that the discbox the decade,[71] while Rolling Stone ranked it #30 on its list
sold 100,000 copies.[53] of the 100 best albums of the decade.[72]
The album’s download and "discbox" sales were not Blender’s review, although mostly positive, comment-
eligible for inclusion in the UK Albums Chart because the ed on the album’s lack of warmth, saying that it seemed
website is not a chart-registered retailer.[54] The week of "to be primarily composed of love songs ... that are starv-
its retail release, In Rainbows peaked at number one on ing for human connection but generate all the interper-
the UK Album Chart,[55] with first week sales of 44,602 sonal warmth of a GPS system".[73] The Wire was also crit-
copies.[56] The album entered the Billboard 200 at number ical of the album, noting that "there is ... a sense here
156 due to street date violations, but reached number one
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Chart Peak
79]
position[79]
UK Albums Chart 1
US Billboard 200 1
Australian ARIA Albums Chart 2
Canadian Albums Chart 1
French Albums Chart 1
Irish Albums Chart 1
New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart 2
Germany Albums Chart 8
Japan Oricon Albums Chart 11
of a group magisterially marking time, shying away ... 3. "Last Flowers" (Live) – 7. "Bangers + Mash" –
from any grand, rhetorical, countercultural purpose."[74] 4:11 3:19
Yet cumulatively, the album was ranked as one of the 8. "4 Minute Warning" –
best albums of 2007 by many music publications.[75] It 4:04
came in at the top spot in Billboard, Mojo and PopMatters’
list. NME and The A.V. Club ranked the album third in
their lists, Pitchfork Media and Q placed it fourth, while Personnel
Rolling Stone and Spin ranked it sixth.[75] In Rainbows was • Colin Greenwood
nominated for the short list of the 2008 Mercury Music • Jonny Greenwood
Prize[76] and received nominations for the 51st Grammy • Ed O’Brien
Awards: Album of the Year, Best Alternative Music Al- • Phil Selway
bum, Producer of the Year, Non-Classical and Best Boxed • Thom Yorke (also credited for artwork as ’Dr.
or Special Limited Edition Package. Three Grammy nomi- Tchock’)
nations also went to the song and music video for "House Additional personnel
of Cards".[77] In Rainbows won awards for Best Alternative • Stanley Donwood – cover art
Music Album and Best Special Limited Edition Pack- • Nigel Godrich – production, mixing, engineering
age.[78]. • Dan Grech-Marguerat – engineering
• Bob Ludwig – mastering
Track listing • Matrix Music School children’s choir – choir on "15
Step"
All tracks written by Ra- • The Millennia Ensemble – strings
diohead. Bonus disc • Hugo Nicolson – engineering
1. "15 Step" – 3:58 The discbox release of the • Graeme Stewart – preproduction
2. "Bodysnatchers" – 4:02 album includes a second • Richard Woodcraft – engineering
3. "Nude" – 4:15 disc, which contains eight
4. "Weird Fishes/
Arpeggi" – 5:18
additional tracks. It is Charts
26:55 in duration.[36] On 9
5. "All I Need" – 3:48 June 2009, Radiohead
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