Album of Friday

Kid A, by Radiohead (2000): You have to give Radiohead credit - they rarely do the same thing twice. After the critical acclaim of OK Computer (indeed, Spin magazine just name it the best album of the last 20 years and I actually own it, which freaks me out a bit), the band veered in a terrifically different direction with Kid A. In fact, it's hard to believe that a band that can marshal (so to speak!) three guitar players at once could produce an album so devoid of crunchy six-string work. I definitely have to be in the right mood to want to listen to Kid A, but it's really brilliant once I'm in the right frame of mind.