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Radiohead

"Supercollider"

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April 25, 2011

Sorry, Radiohead fans — the band swears the only sequel you're going to get to The King of Limbs is these tunes. Both are superb electro ballads that would have fit King's moodier second half. "Supercollider" is familiar from the group's epochal 2008 tour; the stuttering drums on the new "The Butcher" evoke Prince's "Housequake," while Thom Yorke layers harmonies into a celebration of paranoid dread.

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