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Radiohead: Hail To The Thief (Parlophone)

Andy Gill, Independent, The, 6 June 2003

THOSE RADIOHEAD fans hankering after the band's more mainstream indie-rock style will be heartened by the first sound they hear on Hail To The Thief, which is the click and hum of Jonny Greenwood plugging his guitar into an amplifier. Does this, they'll wonder hopefully, prefigure a return to the prog-rock panache of OK Computer, after the wayward experimentalism of Kid A and Amnesiac?

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