Monday, October 01, 2007
Posted at
02:39
by
Caitlin E. Curran
From the inbox (in case you hadn't heard it from everyone else yet, i.e. every music blog on the web, your hipster little sister, your grandmother, the mailperson, the Starbucks barista, your newborn baby cousin, etc. etc.):
RADIOHEAD: THE ALBUM IN
RAINBOWSAVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT
RADIOHEAD.COMPRE-ORDERS NOW
UNDERWAY FOR THE SPECIAL EDITION BOX-SET AND FOR OCTOBER 10 ALBUM DIGITAL
DOWNLOAD.Radiohead.com is open for business with pre-orders
having begun today for their 7th studio album
In Rainbows, which will be
available from October 10 as a DRM-free MP3 download. Also available to
pre-order from now is the Discbox, a special edition box set, details of which
are below.
Radiohead's fan service, WASTE, is currently taking advance
orders for two formats: the album MP3 and the Discbox, which includes double
vinyl and CD versions of the record and a second, enhanced CD with additional
new songs, artwork, and photographs of the band, all exclusive to the box.
Anyone purchasing this deluxe edition will automatically receive the bundled MP3
album on October 10.
Radiohead are currently planning a traditional CD
release of In Rainbows for early 2008.
The album was produced by Nigel
Godrich. The complete track listing is:
15
STEP
BODYSNATCHERS
NUDE
WEIRD FISHES/ARPEGGI
ALL I NEED
FAUST
ARP
RECKONER
HOUSE OF CARDS
JIGSAW FALLING INTO
PLACE
VIDEOTAPE
The extra songs on the second CD of the Discbox
are:
MK1
DOWN IS THE NEW UP
GO SLOWLY
MK2
LAST FLOWERS
UP
ON THE LADDER
BANGERS AND MASH
4 MINUTE WARNING
According to
Idolator,
Pitchfork, and
NME (who worries that digital downloads are excluded from chart counts, therefore
In Rainbows won't be a chart topper), though, the official hardcopy release date will be Dec. 3. Who you gonna believe? Another question: why would Radiohead fans need to pre-order a digital download? Are they going to run out?
For the record, many of the listed
In Rainbows tracks were circulating the internets in various forms as early as last spring (when the then-mysterious album was deemed "LP7" by uploaders), and Will Spitz put together a handy track-by-track guide to the songs - check it out
here.More on the album here, at
inrainbows.
