In Rainbows is IMO the best Radiohead album since Kid A. So what if there's less techno drumbeats, the songwriting is at an all time high. And I fail to see how it sounds like Pablo Honey's twin brother...ure talking a grunge album typical of the 90's verses a looser, more stripped down, and more mellow, melodic album. This is Radiohead's pop song album. Songs like House of Cards, All I Need, Nude, 15 Steps...they're melodic masterpieces and easy to get with one listen. On Kid A, Amnesiac and HTTT, they really weren't writing "songs" in the traditional sense, they were more or else experiments given some direction by a keen sense of pop songcraft, while on this album they are clearly WRITTEN SONGS! That's the difference, and it's astonishing that so many people here fail to realize that. It's not like they wrote 10 Fake Plastic Trees ballads. This is strong songwriting that clearly displays the bands evolution and maturity.