Have Elbow ever considered "doing a Kid A", and presenting a wholly new direction?
This sense of insecurity was precisely what made "Kid A" so convincing.
Furthermore, Kid A was an experimental album without any singles, and received relatively little radio airplay.
Some of the lyrics, like others on Kid A, were created from cutting up phrases and drawing them from a hat.
I like Kid A but it isnt worthy of the praise it gets.
Despite the band's new direction alienating some fans and critics, Kid A received generally positive reviews from notable music publications.
Estimates suggested Kid A was downloaded without payment millions of times before its worldwide release, and some expected weaker sales.
So it helps reveal the deep grammar that the innovative language of "Kid A" shares with the band's earlier work.
Thus it formed a natural opening track for Kid A, the first album compiled from these recording sessions.
I don't feel like we went all Kid A on everyone.