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The Bends est le deuxième album du groupe Radiohead, produit par John Leckie, épaulé par Nigel Godrich, qui deviendra par la suite le principal producteur du groupe. À sa sortie, en 1995, il a surpris la critique par la différence de style qu'il marque avec l'opus précédent, Pablo Honey. L'usage de claviers est mis en avant, les guitares s'orientent vers un son plus agressif et les paroles deviennent plus inspirées, Thom Yorke prenant dès lors son rôle de parolier très au sérieux, dénonçant par exemple la fatigue des tournées incessantes.

Accueilli par une critique largement satisfaite, cet album, bien que marqué par plus de reconnaissance que Pablo Honey, ne parvint cependant pas à rebondir sur le succès commercial du hit Creep. Le dernier extrait de l'album, Street Spirit (Fade Out), fut tout de même leur premier single classé dans le "top 5" anglais, l'album atteignant au plus haut la 88ème place des charts américains.

Ainsi, bien qu'il ne fut pas marqué par le succès fulgurant qui caractérisera par la suite chaque parution du groupe, The Bends a été certifié trois fois "platine" en Grande-Bretagne et au Canada, et "platine" aux États-Unis et en Europe. Du fait du grand retentissement qui encensa la sortie des premiers albums de Radiohead, il est encore aujourd'hui considéré comme un des produits artistiques majeurs des années '90, (à ce titre, Matthew Bellamy, leader du groupe alternatif Muse, le citera par exemple comme l'un des plus grands albums de cette décennie avec le Nevermind de Nirvana).

Cet album est dédicacé au comédien américain Bill Hicks.
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Thom Yorke and his band of merry men have taken the musical landscape and toyed, spliced and even at times mollycoddled it. Where most bands pick a path and stick to it, the Oxford five-piece have danced over and beyond various musical landscapes, carving out a unique hollow for others to marvel at. But before they achieved such a status, Radiohead had some establishing to do.

At a time when the main argument in the music industry was Blur vs. Oasis, Radiohead were following up their debut Pablo Honey with a more progressive move towards the largely unpopular art rock movement. The Bends sounded different. Why? It had subtle creativity at its core. Producer John Leckie, who also produced Pink Floyd, gave the band an unprecedented freedom of expression and the band had more than enough ability to take the ball and run...

The first track Planet Telex feels genuinely refreshing even thirteen years later. Further on, High and Dry and Fake Plastic Trees are simply acoustic treats ”“ stirring and poignant. Bones swiftly picks up the mood before Just blows most of the previous tracks out of the water, with the gain whacked up to ten and '90s guitar solos aplenty. Street Spirit (Fade Out), although notoriously downbeat contains one of the most recognizable guitar riffs in musical history. Accompany that with haunting harmonies and a string section and it all amounts to a stunning finish to the album.

Popular opinion places OK Computer as Radiohead's finest release to date, yet the The Bends was where they really put themselves firmly into the public consciousness. On the title track, Yorke sings, ''where do we go from here?'' like he didn’t have a plan”¦Luckily for us, he had a pretty good one.


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