In Rainbows

about this album

In Rainbows is the seventh studio album by the English indie rock band Radiohead. It was first released on October 10, 2007 as a digital download that customers could order for whatever price they saw fit, followed by a standard CD release in most countries during the last week of 2007. The album was eventually released in North America on January 1, 2008. It was Radiohead's first release after the end of their contract with EMI and the end of the longest gap between studio albums in their career, having been recorded in London, Somerset, Wiltshire, and Oxfordshire over more than two years, beginning in early 2005. In between recording, the band toured Europe and North America for three months in 2006. Radiohead used a wide variety of musical styles on the album. They incorporated influences from indie folk and soft rock while maintaining their post-rock experimentation, with string arrangements, electronic production, pianos, celestes and the ondes Martenot. They also renewed their focus on guitars, drums, and bass as lead instruments, similar to what they had previously achieved in part on Hail to the Thief. The songwriting on In Rainbows is more personal, with singer Thom Yorke describing it as a series of "seduction songs". Upon its retail release, In Rainbows entered the United World Chart, UK Album Chart, and the U.S. Billboard 200 at number one. The album earned widespread critical acclaim, and several publications ranked it as one of the best albums of 2007. User-c

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