It’s hilarious how people still think Radiohead is a rock band. Ever since Kid A, guitar worshipers have spit on the ground and wondered when the hell Thom and friends are going to finally get back to the six-string stuff, but The King of Limbs is the clearest evidence yet that they’ve gone to the other side completely, and are now an electronic group with guitars, the kind of act where remixes are par for the course, rather than some sort of olive branch to a musical world not like its own. Most of Limbs sounds more like a series of parts ready to be moved around than a finished statement, anyway, and clearly, the band thinks so, because they issued seven 12-inches featuring remixes of each track, here conveniently collected together.

Tasteful fuckers that they are, Radiohead cool-hunted a double-fistful of early-’10s electronic-dance cult favorites — click through a few pages on FACT Magazine sometime and you’ll locate every contributor here. And what do you know — a few times, the remixers do more with the tracks than the group itself. The most obvious example is “Feral”: only rave-throwback prince Lone grabbed it (all the others are… read more »