won Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album

Kid A received a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album and a nomination for Album of the Year in early 2001. It won both praise and criticism in independent music circles for appropriating underground styles of music; some British critics saw Kid A as a “commercial suicide note” and “intentionally difficult”, and longed for a return to Radiohead’s earlier style. Fans were similarly divided; along with those who were appalled or mystified, many saw it as the band’s best work. Yorke denied that Radiohead had set out to eschew expectations, saying: “We’re not trying to be difficult … We’re actually trying to communicate but somewhere along the line, we just seemed to piss off a lot of people … What we’re doing isn’t that radical.” The album was ranked one of the best of all time by publications including Time and Rolling Stone; Rolling Stone , Pitchfork and the Times named it the best album of the decade.