Jigsaw Falling Into Place
The first time I heard Radiohead's new album, In Rainbows, I was disappointed. It felt like the soundtrack to an underwater cartoon about a boy and his pet squid. Part of me keeps waiting for the reckless electric dissonance of earlier albums like OK Computer, and they keep trending toward more wispy elf-pop stylings.
But with some time it's doing what all good albums do -- nibbling at the edge of my attention span until I'm singing the tracks during the day. Nude, Reckoner, and Jigsaw Falling Into Place are particular favorites:
"Just as you take my hand Just as you write my number down Just as the drinks arrive Just as they play your favourite song As your blather disappears No longer wound up like a spring Before you've had too much Come back and focus againThe walls abandon shape
You've got a cheshire cat grin
All blurring into one
This place is on a mission
Before the night owl
Before the animal noises
Closed circuit cameras
Before you're comatoseBefore you run away from me
Before you're lost between the notes
The beat goes round and round
The beat goes round and round
I never really got there
I just pretended that I had
What's the point of instruments
Words are a sawed off shotgun
If you didn't know, you can download the album from Radiohead's website and pay as much or as little as you'd like for it.