Lovely.

I've now listened to the entire album 5 times and feel a bit more qualified to offer my opinion on Radiohead's latest stab at making the rest of us feel a bit more inferior.

Through the first listen, we start at 15 Step, a clickity-clackity bare bones Thom wailing number, which sets alarm bells off ringing because we've lost the rest of the band and we're back to the lonely and minimalistic sound of The Eraser.

Happily the guitar gently kicks in gently and sets the pace for the rest of the album, a slow ascent from the murky depths of a very much alone Thom Yorke to a rather wholesome and full sounding number, which has once again worked out what we want, even if we didn't know it ourselves.

By the time we reach All I Need and Faust Arp, the music starts flowing and Radiohead settle into a musical sweet spot which is undefinable. They haven't broken the mould this time, instead preferring to beat out the sounds they've invented and created over the years into something recognisable to even the most musically devoid of us as music.

House of Cards is a peak and a trough of sorts, we reach a very accessible sound and in doing so lose some of what normally endears hardcore fans to Radiohead. There is the need for this though, a good album can cater for more than one type of listener and there is a broad spectrum of sounds to be found throughout the In Rainbows experience.

Videotape is a strange place to leave the album with, it's "yet another sorrow-ridden ballad from Thom Yorke with a piano". It's downbeat and yet it sticks in your head because it's the last thing you hear.

Makes you want to go back to the Happy times of the Middle Of The Album. And I have been doing so all day. A success? I think so.

8.7/10 I would say.