Posted from The Citrus Report
There is a great point made at the beginning of Sean McCarthy’s PopMatters essay, “Here’s Looking at You, Kid: The Echoes of ‘Kid A’,” where he writes “For those that routinely pride themselves in recognizing what a landmark album Kid A was on the day of its release, I’ll take your word for it, but with a slight dose of skepticism.”
Its true. If we were to go back to the first time we heard Radiohead’s landmark 2000 release, Kid A, we remember the feeling that something greater was happening, but were finding it difficult to be the soundtrack of our college dorm. As the year went on the album began to breath, but the from the very first note to the very last heavenly choir, its seemed grand but difficult.
McCarthy’s essay looks at the initial praise and confusion over the release, and how opinions have changed since.
