The Bends
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The Bends
The Bends is the second studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 13 March 1995 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and Capitol Records in the United States. It was produced by John Leckie, and engineered by Nigel Godrich, who has produced all of Radiohead’s subsequent studio albums. It was the first Radiohead album with cover art by Stanley Donwood, who, with singer Thom Yorke, has produced all of Radiohead’s artwork since. -Wikipedia
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NME
Radiohead aren’t okay, and you might not be either, but feeling like shit never felt so life-affirming.
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Rolling Stone
The record is filled with lovely ballads, full of longing, jealousy and critiques of consumer culture.
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Billboard
The sound is bold and confident, and it didn't come easy.
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The Odyssey Online
This album is regarded as one of the best for a reason. The change of sounds from the band showed what musicians could do with their music. It showed the world that brutal honesty can sell.
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Classic Rock Review
The music was sweeping and dynamic with diverse styles and arrangements added to their three-guitar attack to forge a grand and forceful sound.
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BBC
On the title track, Yorke sings, ''where do we go from here?'' like he didn’t have a plan…Luckily for us, he had a pretty good one.
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Sputnik Music
"The Bends" is one of the best alternative rock albums of the 90's.
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Punk News
The Bends really was the beginning of the end, but also the re-birth of something new.
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All Music
What makes The Bends so remarkable is that it marries such ambitious, and often challenging, instrumental soundscapes to songs that are at their cores hauntingly melodic and accessible.
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The Quietus
I'm slack-jawed, wide-eyed and bowled over.
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Daily Review
With the slow demise of the album as the standard format for the release of popular music, we will no doubt always be able to enjoy it as a true piece of alternative rock artistry.
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The Guardian
The Bends is not Radiohead's most ground breaking album - it is, however, arguably their most complete album, their finest showcase of song writing.
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Music KO
Revelation is nowhere else to be found but on “The Bends”.
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
The Bends balances mainstream accessibility, quality songwriting, and innovative production to satisfy repeated listens.
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N.Y. Mag
The effect is epic and grand, but without bombast.
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Wired
The Bends wears you out, in the best ways possible.
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Player.FM
The album paved the way for future success.
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4 out of 5 Reviews
The Bends was the band's first set of great tunes, that included acoustic ballads to shake up the grunge flavor that occupied most of the record.
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Puluche
Considering this creative landscape, it is only a matter of time before this band mangles expectations and delivers alternative rock so alternative that confining it to a genre would be a blatant insult.
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Uncut
The Bends is simply more focused, better written, less anxious and allows Thom Yorke’s voice more room.
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Leighton Literature
It’s a record I’ll always go back to, an album that I know will stay with me for the rest of my days.
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Off the Tracks
Probably what upsets me most about The Bends is that people want to give it something close to Classic Album status. It was time-and-place music only. It is so very much of its era – and not really era-defining either – that it should soundtrack a mid-90s museum exhibit.
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4 out of 5 Reviews
The Bends was the band's first set of great tunes, that included acoustic ballads to shake up the grunge flavor that occupied most of the record.
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