Editing The Bends (album) (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album reviews
| title = Contemporary reviews
| rev1 = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
| rev1score = {{Rating|1|4}}<ref name="CBT"/>
| rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev2score = B+<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/article/1995/04/07/bends |title=The Bends |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |issue=269 |location=New York |issn=1049-0434 |date=7 April 1995 |access-date=8 September 2011 |last=Sinclair |first=Tom |page=92 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715211908/http://www.ew.com/article/1995/04/07/bends |archive-date=15 July 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref name="guardian-review">{{cite news |title=Radiohead: The Bends (Parlophone) |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |issn=0261-3077 |date=17 March 1995 |last=Sullivan |first=Caroline |pages=A12–A14}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Morris"/>
| rev5 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev5score = 9/10<ref name="nme-review">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000323reviews.html |title=Radiohead – The Bends |magazine=[[NME]] |location=London |date=18 March 1995 |access-date=9 July 2015 |last=Sutherland |first=Mark |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817181655/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000323reviews.html |archive-date=17 August 2000 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="q-review">{{cite magazine |title=Radiohead: The Bends |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=103 |location=London |date=April 1995}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-bends-19950308 |title=The Bends |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |location=New York |date=8 March 1995 |access-date=23 August 2015 |last=Drozdowski |first=Ted |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918080456/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-bends-19950308 |archive-date=18 September 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]''
| rev8score = 4/5<ref name="Morrison"/>
| rev9 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev9score = 5/10<ref name="Spin"/>
| rev10 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev10score = C<ref name="VV">{{cite news |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ts96-96.php |title=Consumer Guide: Turkey Shoot |newspaper=[[The Village Voice]] |location=New York |date=3 December 1996 |access-date=8 September 2011 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017125357/http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/ts96-96.php |archive-date=17 October 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}

''The Bends'' brought Radiohead significant critical attention.<ref name="Reed-2003" /> The ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' critic Caroline Sullivan wrote that Radiohead had "transformed themselves from nondescript guitar-beaters to potential arena-fillers ... The grandeur may eventually pall, as it has with [[U2]], but it's been years since big bumptious rock sounded this emotional."<ref name="guardian-review" /> ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' described ''The Bends'' as a "powerful, bruised, majestically desperate record of frighteningly good songs".<ref name="q-review" /> In ''[[NME]]'', Mark Sutherland wrote that "Radiohead clearly resolved to make an album so stunning it would make people forget their own name, never mind ['Creep']", describing it as "the consummate, all-encompassing, continent-straddling '90s rock record".<ref name="nme-review" /> Dave Morrison of ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]'' wrote that it "captures and clarifies a much wider trawl of moods than ''Pablo Honey''" and praised Radiohead as "one of the UK's big league, big-rock assets".<ref name="Morrison">{{cite magazine|last=Morrison|first=Dave|date=April 1995|title=Radiohead: The Bends|magazine=[[Select (magazine)|Select]]|location=London|issue=58}}</ref> ''NME'' and ''[[Melody Maker]]'' named ''The Bends'' among the top ten albums of the year.<ref name="Bauder-1996">{{cite news|last=Bauder|first=David|date=29 March 1996|title=Radiohead: Band's 'Bends' album has stylistic, diverse sound.|work=[[Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois)|The Daily Herald]]|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/arlington-heights-daily-herald-suburban-chicago-mar-29-1996-p-203/|access-date=16 September 2021|archive-date=16 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916082532/https://newspaperarchive.com/arlington-heights-daily-herald-suburban-chicago-mar-29-1996-p-203/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Critical reception in the US was mixed.<ref name="Walters-2017" /> [[Chuck Eddy]] of ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' deemed much of ''The Bends'' "nodded-out nonsense mumble, not enough concrete emotion",<ref name="Spin">{{cite magazine |url=http://spin.com/reviews/radiohead-the-bends-capitol/ |title=Radiohead, 'The Bends' (Capitol) |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |volume=11 |issue=2 |location=New York |date=May 1995 |access-date=6 March 2015 |last=Eddy |first=Chuck |author-link=Chuck Eddy |pages=97–98 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150308153357/http://www.spin.com/reviews/radiohead-the-bends-capitol/ |archive-date=8 March 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> while Kevin McKeough from the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' panned Yorke's lyrics as "self-absorbed" and the music as overblown and pretentious.<ref name="CBT">{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1995/04/27/radioheadthe-bends-capitol-staralong-with-becks-loser/ |title=Radiohead: The Bends (Capitol) |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=27 April 1995 |access-date=23 August 2015 |last=McKeough |first=Kevin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016233036/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-04-27/features/9504270038_1_black-star-moody-blues-radiohead |archive-date=16 October 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> In ''[[The Village Voice]]'', [[Robert Christgau]] wrote that the guitar parts and expressions of angst were skilful and natural, but lacked depth: "The words achieve precisely the same pitch of aesthetic necessity as the music, which is none at all."<ref name="VV" /> In the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', Sandy Morris praised Yorke as "almost as enticingly enigmatic as [[Smashing Pumpkins]]' [[Billy Corgan]], though of a more delicate constitution".<ref name="Morris">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-05-07-ca-63206-story.html |title=Radiohead, 'The Bends,' Capitol |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=7 May 1995 |access-date=7 May 2016 |last=Morris |first=Sandy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603174327/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-05-07/entertainment/ca-63206_1_pure-pop |archive-date=3 June 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1997, Jonny Greenwood said ''The Bends'' had been a "turning point" for Radiohead: "It started appearing in people's [best of] polls for the end of the year. That's when it started to feel like we made the right choice about being a band."<ref name="LAUNCH2">{{cite journal |last=DiMartino |first=Dave |date=2 May 1997 |title=Give Radiohead to Your Computer |journal=[[Yahoo! Music|LAUNCH]]}}</ref> The success gave Radiohead the confidence to self-produce their next album, ''[[OK Computer]]'' (1997), with Godrich.<ref name="IRVIN">{{citation |last=Irvin |first=Jim |title=Thom Yorke tells Jim Irvin how ''OK Computer'' was done |date=July 1997 |magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |author-link=Jim Irvin}}</ref>