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| Length = | Label = | Producer = Nigel Godrich | Last album = ''In Rainbows'' (2007) | This album = ''The King of Limbs'' (2011) | Next album = ''TKOL RMX 1234567'' (2011) | Misc = }} ''The King of Limbs'' is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, produced by Nigel Godrich. It was self-released on 18 February 2011 as a download in MP3 and WAV formats, followed by physical CD and 12" vinyl releases on 28 March and a special "newspaper" edition on 9 May 2011. The physical editions were released through the band's Ticker Tape imprint on XL in the United Kingdom, TBD in the United States, and Hostess Entertainment in Japan. Following the protracted recording and more conventional rock instrumentation of ''In Rainbows'' (2007), Radiohead developed ''The King of Limbs'' by sampling and looping their recordings. Singer Thom Yorke described the album as an expression of "wildness" and "mutation". Radiohead released no singles from the album, but released a music video for "Lotus Flower" that spawned an internet meme. The album was named one of the best albums of 2011 by publications including the ''Wire'', the ''NME'', and ''PopMatters'', and was nominated for five categories in the 54th Grammy Awards, including Best Alternative Music Album. It sold an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 download copies in two months of release and became a bestseller on vinyl. The album was followed in the same year by a remix album, ''TKOL RMX 1234567'', and a live video, ''The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement''. == Recording == Like Radiohead's sixth album, ''Hail to the Thief'' (2003), ''The King of Limbs'' was recorded in Los Angeles, possibly at the home of actress Drew Barrymore, who is thanked in the album's liner notes. The recording differed from the difficult sessions for Radiohead's previous album ''In Rainbows'' (2007). Guitarist Ed O'Brien said: "We decided at the end of (Rainbows'' ) never to do it like this again. That was kind of the end of Radiohead mark two." Singer Thom Yorke said the band had felt that "if we are gonna carry on, we need to do it for a new set of reasons." In September 2010, drummer Phil Selway said Radiohead had been recording intermittently for a year. Where ''In Rainbows'' was developed from Radiohead's live performances, Selway said the ''The King of Limbs'' sessions had been "quite the opposite". Multi-instrumentalist and programmer Jonny Greenwood told ''Rolling Stone'' that the band "didn't want to pick up guitars and write chord sequences. We didn't want to sit in front of a computer either. We wanted a third thing, which involved playing and programming."〔 Radiohead experimented with a turntable and vinyl emulation software to sample and manipulate music they had been working on, using sampler software written by Greenwood.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Versus Ed O'Brien )〕 Yorke likened the process of editing and arranging prerecorded sounds and ideas to editing a film.〔 O'Brien said: "Music came first, then the lyrics, and the melody came after. So we had blocks of music and then Thom would write a lead vocal line melody and lyrics to it." In 2012, he told ''Rolling Stone'': "The brick walls we tended to hit were when we knew something was great, like 'Bloom', but not finished. We knew the song was nearly something. Then (Colin Greenwood ) had that bassline, and Thom started singing. Those things suddenly made it a hundred times better."〔'〕 According to the ''Los Angeles Times'' writer Jia-Rui Cook, Radiohead held a wrap-up party for the album on 30 January 2011. Appearing on a BBC radio show in April 2011, O'Brien explained that Radiohead felt the ideal album was around 40 minutes long, and cited Marvin Gaye's ''What's Going On'' (1971) as a classic record shorter than ''The King of Limbs''. Cover artist Stanley Donwood said: "''In Rainbows'' was very much a definitive statement, and that isn't where the band are at the moment. Where they are now is more transitory ... this album shows where Radiohead are at the moment the record was released. The music is a continuing thing. And we wanted to make the album representative of that."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Take Cover: Radiohead: ''The King of Limbs'' ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The King of Limbs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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