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Rob Laing

"It was a dark place, and we realised we didn't want to go back there": is Radiohead's King Of Limbs not just their most underrated record, but the one that helped save them?

Radiohead The King Of Limbs artwork.

It's hard to imagine what it's like inside the eye of the Radiohead creative process; it evolves, it mutates… the band wilfully questions and reconfigures their comfort zones and roles. They are the definition of what a progressive band should be in many ways, And it gets results, mostly. 

Few would name their eighth album, The King Of Limbs, as a top three, even five, Radiohead album, but in a 2021 video interview with The Coda Collection's Greg Kot, producer Nigel Godrich was able to give us an insider's perspective on the way Radiohead worked on the material with him. And elsewhere, archive interviews with Radiohead themselves reveal the album as part of a much bigger arc. One that was possibly essential to their survival as a band.  

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