In Rainbows

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On the week of its retail release, In Rainbows reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, [115] with first-week sales of 44,602 copies. The NME described In Rainbows as "Radiohead reconnecting with their human sides, realising you [can] embrace pop melodies and proper instruments while still sounding like paranoid androids .

In Rainbows / From The Basement (2008, CD) - Discogs In Rainbows / From The Basement (2008, CD) - Discogs

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As Radiohead's recording contract with EMI ended in 2003, Radiohead recorded In Rainbows without a record label. Regular recording sessions began that August, with Radiohead updating fans on their progress intermittently on their new blog, Dead Air Space.

Radiohead – In Rainbows (2016, Digipak Deluxe, CD) - Discogs

As Hail to the Thief was the final album released under their record contract with EMI, they had no contractual obligation to release new material.

I also miss listening to something special for the first time and imagining, against reason, the rest of the world holed up in their respective bedrooms, having the same experience. The download was packaged as a ZIP file containing the album's ten tracks encoded in a 160 kbit/s DRM-free MP3 format. Though it goes nowhere, "Go Slowly"'s slow burn would have fit on the proper album-- for that matter, it could've been an outtake from any of their last four records.