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The Bends
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Album Reviews: 4
Album: The Bends
Artist: Radiohead
Release Date: 4/4/1995
Genre: Rock/Pop
{^Pablo Honey} in no way was adequate preparation for its epic, sprawling follow-up, {^The Bends}. Building from the sweeping, three-guitar attack that punctuated the best moments of {^Pablo Honey}, {$Radiohead} create a grand and forceful sound that nevertheless resonates with anguish and despair -- it's cerebral anthemic {\rock}. Occasionally, the album displays its influences, whether it's {$U2}, {$Pink Floyd}, {$R.E.M.}, or {$the Pixies}, but {$Radiohead} turn clichés inside out, making each song sound bracingly fresh. {$Thom Yorke}'s tortured lyrics give the album a melancholy undercurrent, as does the surging, textured music. But what makes {^The Bends} so remarkable is that it marries such ambitious, and often challenging, instrumental soundscapes to songs that are at their cores hauntingly melodic and accessible. It makes the record compelling upon first listen, but it reveals new details with each listen, and soon it becomes apparent that with {^The Bends}, {$Radiohead} have reinvented anthemic {\rock}. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Track Name plays | downloads
Planet Telex 0 0    
Bends 0 0    
High and Dry 0 0    
Fake Plastic Trees 0 0    
Bones 0 0    
Nice Dream 0 0    
Just 0 0    
My Iron Lung 0 0    
Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was 0 0    
Black Star 0 0    
Sulk 0 0    
Street Spirit (Fade Out) 0 0    

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The Bends - JAPANESE BONUS TRACKS  |  1998
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