Claude says:The Bends is Radiohead still figuring out how to be a guitar band after "Creep" wouldn't leave them alone—tighter, angrier, way more interesting than anyone expected in 1995. You've lived with it steady since the mid-2000s, keep coming back to the bruised vulnerability of "High and Dry" and "Fake Plastic Trees," songs that proved they could wound you without needing a production gimmick.