Radiohead Let Listeners Name Their Price For In Rainbows

10/01/07 6:00pm

by Moya Dillon (CHARTattack)

After weeks of teasing and posting cryptic clues on their Dead Air Space website about a new album, Radiohead have announced that In Rainbows will be released on Oct. 10 exclusively through their site.

Radiohead, whose deal with longtime label EMI ended after the 2003 release of Hail To The Thief, have yet to sign with a new label and are releasing the album independently. For now, the British group's seventh studio effort will be available for pre-order as a download or as part of a deluxe "discbox."

The best part is that you decide how much you want to pay for the download. If you pre-order it now, you'll receive an access code that you use to digitally access the album on Oct. 10.

The discbox includes the new album on CD and on two 12-inch heavyweight vinyl records. A second enhanced CD — featuring more new songs, digital photographs and artwork — is also included. Artwork and lyric booklets will also be packaged in a hardback book and slipcase. The digital download is included in the package. The discbox won't ship until "on or before" Dec. 3 and will cost 40 British pounds ($81.13).

According to the band's publicist, the album will be made available in a traditional physical CD version sometime in 2008, but no details have yet been announced. The material on In Rainbows was mostly tested out on the road during Radiohead's tour last year. But a few tracks, including "Weird Fishes," "Last Flowers" and "Faust Arp" appear to have been written more recently.

Here are the songs on In Rainbows:

Disc one and vinyl:
"15 Step"
"Bodysnatchers"
"Nude"
"Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"
"All I Need"
"Faust Arp"
"Reckoner"
"House Of Cards"
"Jigsaw Falling Into Place"
"Videotape"

Disc two and vinyl:
"MK 1"
"Down Is The New Up"
"Go Slowly"
"MK 2"
"Last Flowers"
"Up On The Ladder"
"Bangers And Mash"
"4 Minute Warning"