After the the largely electronic and often outlandish experimental music on Kid A and Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief saw Radiohead once again embracing guitars. Overall, it’s still a pretty decent record, but didn’t come even close to the plateau of brilliance that the band would reach on subsequent albums.Īt the time of release, Hail to the Thief was most likely an important album for many Radiohead fans. After Ripchord, the record falls far short of the opening half of the album, with the exception of closing track Blow Out. So other than the knowledge that the band are currently working on a new record, there’s no way of knowing when it will be released. While we wait though, here’s a look at Radioheads current album output, with all 8 albums ranked in order of greatness.Īn obvious album to compare Pablo Honey to would be Blur’s LP Leisure. Both are debut albums, both show early signs of promise, and both have a pretty great first half (including Radiohead’s first major hit, Creep) followed by an extraordinarily ropey second half.
Radiohead discography ranked free#
Nowadays, free of a record label contract, Radiohead’s album releases are a lot more sporadic, and tend to be put out as and when they feel like it. Then surprisingly – shockingly for many, even – they decided to largely abandoned their guitars for 2000’s Kid A. Starting out as a fairly standard indie by numbers group with their debut album Pablo Honey in 1993, Radiohead then surprisingly went on to become one of the most lauded and revered British groups on the planet with 1995’s The Bends and 1997’s OK Computer.