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A review by marblebluevinyl
This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century by Steven Hyden
3.0
I have to imagine if you weren't there — and, to be fair, you can be 24 at the time of this writing and not "been there," so that's perfectly legitimate — Hyden does a great job of capturing of the evolution of the internet and the way it went from being where culture flowed TO to where culture flowed FROM and how Radiohead was disaffected by all of it.
What the book craves and lacks is deeper insights or band interviews. If you want a book about the making of Kid A with insights into the creative process that Ed O'Brien didn't already give us, there's a few nuggets.
Largely, This Isn't Happening is Hyden pontificating about Kid A in the wider cultural context of Radiohead's career arc and its place in pop culture. And, in that regard, it's fine. It's just not what I, specifically, was craving from a story about Kid A.
What the book craves and lacks is deeper insights or band interviews. If you want a book about the making of Kid A with insights into the creative process that Ed O'Brien didn't already give us, there's a few nuggets.
Largely, This Isn't Happening is Hyden pontificating about Kid A in the wider cultural context of Radiohead's career arc and its place in pop culture. And, in that regard, it's fine. It's just not what I, specifically, was craving from a story about Kid A.