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Radiohead - TKOL RMX 1234567
After Radiohead dropped The King Of Limbs into the world at such short notice, there followed a slow trickle of remixes. Released a couple at a time as singles, these 19 tracks make up a diverse take on that intense beast. However, depending on your predilection for spaced out electronica, these remixes are a mixed bag. There are some superb reinterpretations (Jacques Greene’s take on Lotus Flower is one such highlight) but on the whole these versions don’t come anywhere near the originals. The sense of dynamism and invention is lost in the during the inevitable unpacking of TKOL that any remixer had to attempt. Maybe it was the complexity of the originals that was daunting to those who dabbled with them or maybe it was just that Radiohead already spent 4 years honing these so that a few weeks by others was simply not enough. It’s worth listening to once but then just go back to TKOL.
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