It's a rainy fall night here in Oakland, but it's morning in the U.K., where Radiohead's e-mail bot has sprung into action and delivered to me a link to the new album, In Rainbows, which is causing music executives around the world to cut themselves with knives.

For about a year, I've been enjoying recordings from the band's summer 2006 tour (including the Berkeley show I attended), across which most of the material on this new album is performed several times. There's this lovely collection of songs I only know by their live versions, because that's all there's been, and now, I get the studio takes. Luscious, I just betcha.

I'll know soon enough. But right now, I'm hating my pokey DSL line.

(01:01 10/10 UPDATE: Yes, some luscious stuff. A dreamier sound. Echoes. First impressions include: "Nude" is amazing; not sure I like what they did to "Videotape." I can hear the rain outside, and Thom is singing. Sigh. Bedtime.)