Radiohead -Hail to the Theif

Nicko,I think all mentioned are 5 stars.Played them all in last few days to answer your question.Tough call for me but I lean toward Amnesiac sound/style a bit if I have to choose.Hail is growing on me daily,having trouble removing it from the tray,appears to be stuck there.Haunting.....JD

Great, I'm excited to hear it!

Only just got a copy of this on CDR however the rumours were that some of the early copies kicking about were only rough mixes.
Of course promo copies have been out for a while too.
My copy sounds like a CDR of a second or third generation copy of the official album-it's far from terrible and does give some indication that the album is well produced but it's obviously not a copy of the original recording.
In terms of the music I haven't listened in great detail yet but I would say despite some electronic influence this record does sound much more straight forward than the previous two.
It's far from mainstream but it does seem more direct,less thought out-I thought both Kid A and Amnesiac suffered from Radiohead trying too hard not to be the great rock band they obviously are.
Similarly the recording doesn't sound as overdone as parts of Amnesiac and sounds the better for it......

Thanks for the heads-up on the new album. I concur with tireguy that I don't listen to radiohead too often, but there are times when nothing else will do.