Vinyl Record
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - Kid A on 2LP vinyl. A 2000 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
2LP ยท 2000
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2000 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Kid A is Radiohead's 2000 fourth album, the moment the band turned the expectation created by OK Computer into something colder, stranger and more future-facing. It arrived without conventional lead-single logic and opened with Everything In Its Right Place, a piece built around keyboards, processed voice and emotional blankness rather than guitar catharsis. From there, the album moves like a transmission from a damaged century: the title track's synthetic murmur, The National Anthem's bass and brass panic, How To Disappear Completely's orchestral dissociation, Treefingers' ambient drift, Optimistic's one surviving rock-band charge, Idioteque's machine alarm, Morning Bell's domestic fracture and Motion Picture Soundtrack's ruined hymn. The 2000 context is part of the record's force. Just before and just after the millennium, rock's old heroic language suddenly sounded inadequate for digital anxiety, climate dread, information overload and political numbness. Kid A did not explain that world; it made a room that felt like it. Its reputation rests on that refusal to reassure.
Kid A matters because it reset the scale of what a globally visible rock band could do after commercial success. By absorbing electronic music, ambient space, jazz pressure and studio fragmentation, Radiohead turned a career risk into one of the defining albums of the early 21st century.
For collectors, Kid A is non-negotiable Radiohead: the 2000 rupture that divides the band's catalogue into before and after. It belongs beside OK Computer as a defining statement, but its value is different: less a summit of rock songwriting than a new operating system.
Millennial art rock with electronic pulses, ambient passages, processed vocals, anxious bass, brass chaos, spectral strings, minimal guitars and a deep feeling of technological and emotional dislocation.
Recommended for: Collectors building the essential Radiohead canon; Listeners interested in the point where rock and electronic music crossed into a new mainstream language; Fans of albums that feel alien at first and then become strangely intimate.
When was Kid A released? Kid A was released in 2000 as Radiohead's fourth studio album. Why was Kid A considered such a break from OK Computer? It moved away from guitar-led rock drama toward electronics, ambient textures, processed vocals and less conventional song structures. Which Kid A tracks are essential? Everything In Its Right Place, The National Anthem, How To Disappear Completely, Idioteque and Motion Picture Soundtrack are key landmarks.