Radiohead Countdown Wallpaper: #7 of 7 In Rainbows
Posted: October 10, 2007 // Art + Design + Illustration + Internet + Music


So here it is, the final wallpaper in the Radiohead Wallpaper Countdown.
This for the new album, In Rainbows, which I’m currently listening to in fact. I’m 4 songs in, and already in love with it.
The album so far sounds really lo-fi, and extremely jazzy. Thom Yorke’s vocals sound like a female, blues singer from the 40’s, and Phil’s drumming is completely jazz inspired. But at the same time, they’ve layered a lot of sounds, and samples into it.

I know I’m going to be listening to this obsessively for the new few weeks. I am so not disappointed, and was rather happy to give them my $10. If you were skeptical at all about this album, I’d say you have nothing to worry about.

As for the wallpaper above, it was pretty hard to come up with a wallpaper for an album I’d never heard. And though it looks pretty simple, there were a lot of weird things put into it. The background is a blown up picture of a diamond, with a rainbow gradient over it, then the mosaic filter, and darkened a ton. The bright colored rainbow page things are from a photo of a real rainbow, but obviously I tweaked the hell out of it. And the words came from something Thom posted on Dead Air Space, so I thought it was fitting to place it in there.

I hope everyone has enjoyed all of the wallpapers! I know next time I’m going to give myself a much larger head start, and not make each one of these each day I need to release them.
It’s going to be really nice to get back on a better sleeping pattern, haha…

Bobby

13 Comments »

  1. Kudos for a great run of Wallpapers! Seriously it made waiting for the new album even more worth the wait.

    Comment by Jamil — October 10, 2007 #

  2. Thanks, I’m really glad you enjoyed them!

    Comment by Bobby S. — October 10, 2007 #

  3. Yeah – not only was this a cool idea, but it was perfectly executed. Awesome stuff.

    Comment by Garrett — October 10, 2007 #

  4. Thank you, sir.
    Go epic, or go home.

    Comment by Bobby S. — October 10, 2007 #

  5. I hate to darken your blog with bad news, but did you read that Bret Sommers died last month? Love your wallpaper nice to see you are still doing all this sort of stuff!

    Comment by Kristian — October 10, 2007 #

  6. That’s sad about Brett!
    And thanks, I thought they turned out well too!

    Comment by Bobby S. — October 10, 2007 #

  7. [...] Above is a wallpaper I downloaded from Kitsune Noir. Bobby has done some excellent wallpapers representing all of Radiohead’s albums in anticipation of In Rainbows. You can start with Pablo Honey and work your way through the others (The Bends wallpaper is my fav). [...]

    Pingback by Hooverdust.com - Music Photography, Film, Music and pop culture » Blog Archive » In Rainbows — October 14, 2007 #

  8. Great WP’s I downloaded all of them.
    CongraTs

    Comment by Ariel — October 15, 2007 #

  9. Thanks Ariel!

    Comment by Bobby S. — October 16, 2007 #

  10. Great. I love it :) Thanks

    Comment by adry — November 7, 2007 #

  11. Very very VERY inspiring work :)

    Comment by Jessie le Rumble — November 20, 2007 #

  12. Wow, great Radiohead wallpapers–thanks!

    Comment by Kid A — July 8, 2008 #

  13. I LOVE THIS WALLPAPER! Found it randomly on google image. Had it on my desktop for months and I can’t change it =]

    Comment by Eva — May 1, 2009 #

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