Radiohead's New Album "King of Limbs" Drops Saturday

(CBS) The panic, the vomit and the chicken voices in your head will come roaring back this Saturday.

Less cryptically: Radiohead announced that its newest album, "The King of Limbs," will be released Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. The new album will be available as a digital download only through Radiohead for a limited time, followed by a standard retail distribution. A vinyl release will also be available.

Listeners can go to thekingoflimbs.com and pre-order the digital download or what Radiohead calls a "newspaper album," which in addition to the digital download includes two clear 10" vinyl records, a compact disc and many other goodies - though you won't receive those goodies until May.

This release marks the second time Radiohead has put out a full-length album strictly on its own terms. In 2007, the band released "In Rainbows" as a digital download in which listeners named their own price for it (not unlike Priceline, minus William Shatner). The album was later made available to retailers.

For this release, the band has dropped the name-your-own-price angle (downloads start at $9.00) and focused on the Radiohead-does-what-it-wants-when-it-wants-to angle.

Radiohead keeping control of its music is a big deal in this Internet age, reports Pitchfork. "We all know exactly when we're first able to hear a new Radiohead record and therefore will largely all experience it together, something almost completely lost in today's pop music landscape."

True enough. Whether "The King of Limbs" is a more radio-friendly record like "The Bends" or a sonic experiment like "Kid A" seems beside the point. It's about the experience of a Radiohead release and Radiohead itself pulling its own strings.