How Music Critics Got it Wrong with ‘Kid A’ and ‘Donda’
Music critics are often scared or unwilling to let music evolve.
Rolling Stone critic David Fricke got it wrong to such a degree when he reviewed Kid A by Radiohead in October of 2000 that re-reading it in 2021 is just as embarrassing for me as it was when I first read it upon the album’s release. Kid A broke major ground in…