Hail to the Thief (subtitled "The Gloaming") is Radiohead's sixth studio album, released on June 9, 2003 in the UK and June 10 in North America. After two albums of mainly electronic music, with heavily processed vocals and few guitars, the band moves at least some of the way back towards their earlier guitar rock style on Hail to the Thief.
Critical reaction was mixed but tended towards the positive: Neil McCormick, writing in the Daily Telegraph, called it "Radiohead firing on all cylinders, a major work by major artists at the height of their powers", but the NME's James Oldham saw it as "a good rather than great record" and Alexis Petridis of The Guardian called it "neither startlingly different and fresh nor packed with the sort of anthemic songs that once made them the world's biggest band".
Tracks
- "2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm.)"
- "Sit down. Stand up. (Snakes & Ladders.)"
- "Sail to the Moon. (Brush the Cobwebs out of the Sky.)"
- "Backdrifts. (Honeymoon is Over.)"
- "Go to Sleep. (Little Man being Erased.)"
- "Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky is Falling in.)"
- "We suck Young Blood. (Your Time is up.)"
- "The Gloaming. (Softly Open our Mouths in the Cold.)"
- "There there. (The Boney King of Nowhere.)"
- "I will. (No man's Land.)"
- "A Punch Up at a Wedding. (No no no no no no no no.)"
- "Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury & Executioner.)"
- "Scatterbrain. (As Dead as Leaves.)"
- "A Wolf at the Door. (It Girl. Rag Doll.)"
Band
- Thom Yorke - vocals, guitar, piano, laptop
- Jonny Greenwood - guitar, analogue systems, ondes martenot, laptop, toy piano, glockenspiel
- Ed O'Brien - guitar, vocals, effects
- Colin Greenwood - bass, string synth, sampler
- Phil Selway - drums, percussion
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