This is a concept album about the first sentient humanoid robot.

we know

it's actually about life in the existential vacuum where people sway between melancholic indifference and extreme anxiety

It's actually about Kid B's older brother

Isn't it about the first clone of a human? At least that is what i remember Thom saying

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>1 Everything In Its Right Place
Kid A is assembled by a team of brilliant engineers using the latest techniques and technologies, putting everything in its right place to create life.
>2 Kid A
Kid A is "born". (Note the childlike music-box properties of the song)
>3 The National Anthem
Kid A interacts with his handlers for the first time, and notes how standoffish and isolated humans seem to be from each other and him.
>4 How To Disappear Completely
Kid A, given all the processes necessary to experience the full gamut of human emotions, struggles with meaninglessness/purposelessness for the first time.
>5 Treefingers
One of Kid A's handlers befriends him as something more than a machine.
>6 Optimistic
Kid A comes to understand that, as he is humanoid in nature, it's okay that he's not perfect and struggles with certain things. He becomes hopeful for the future
>7 In Limbo
The other handlers warn Kid A's friend about getting to close to an experimental project.
>8 Idioteque
Kid A's favorite handler and best friend becomes deathly ill.
>9 Morning Bell
Kid A wonders why he was created if he only suffers. He wants to be released from the humanity he feels
>10 Motion Picture Soundtrack
Kid A's friend dies. Kid A realizes that he is human, and that he will rejoin his friend in the afterlife someday.

>>73026728
Damn

>>73026817
Really makes you think, huh?

>>73026728
That's a pretty boring concept.

>>73026728
Be honest
How high were you?

>>73026728
radiohead don't do concept albums

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>>73026728
>Implying Optimistic is optimistic

>Thom intentionally chose the name Kid A and used randomised lyrics in half the songs for their non-meaning
>autistic OP forces a terrible concept that makes no sense

wew

hid a what?

>>73026728
What a shit analysis. Fuck you.

>>73026728
you fucked up.
see >>73027095

>>73026417
>>73027095
OP should've said it was an interpretation. Kid A has no definite meaning.

I've always felt like an alien on earth.

this album captures it perfectly. This is why I say if you don't like Tree fingers you do not truly appreciate this album

>>73026728
it would make sense if the lyrics didn't exist

I've always thought it was about the end of the world

>Everything In Its Right Place
everything in life is fine
>Kid A
last few calm minutes before the storm
>National Anthem
atom bombs drop, people hide in bunkers
>How to Disappear Completely
atom bomb makes things disappear completely
>Treefingers
quiet interlude as nothing is around to make noise
>Optimistic
protagonist in a bunker reassuring himself that he can do nothing about his predicament
>In Limbo
protagonist loses touch with reality, denying that it all really happened
>Idioteque
protagonist going insane, remembering the day of the bombing
>Morning Bell
protagonist leaves the bunker
>Motion Picture Soundtrack
protagonist reminisces on life before the apocalypse, then dies

>>73026728
be completely honest: where did you get the idea to look for a unifying concept within this album?
was it discussion about a certain album to be released in 2012?