You clearly have no knowledge of music of the 2010s that isn't by Radiohead. The King of Limbs and to a lesser extent In Rainbows are Radiohead's most popularly accessible albums for the modern listener- it's only Radiohead's older, rockist fans who don't get it. Feral is way more similar to 2010s POP and DANCE music and the kinds of music most people under age 45 actually like, than Fake Plastic Trees, which requires multiple listens even for rock fans to get into since that song is so damn slow musically (and of course has incredible lyrics, but you only start to notice lyrics on repeat listens). Radiohead fans seem to be under the mistaken impression alternative rock music of the 1990s style is somehow the most popular music genre in 2016. Ummm no. Not only that- even back in the '90s, it wasn't ever that popular. The Spice Girls were way bigger than The Bends. Karma Police and Fake Plastic Trees were never big songs on the radio (Karma was a modest hit on alternative rock radio only- it didn't even chart on the Billboard Hot 100). The thing about songs like Separator and Feral and Lotus Flower is, they not only sound more like the pop of their own time than any Radiohead songs previously did, they even sound more like the pop of the '90s. Make Separator a single, go back in time and send that to radio and send every other song Radiohead made on Pablo, Bends and OKC to radio, and guess which song radio would play- EVEN ABOVE CREEP- they would play Separator. Because it actually has a rhythm. It is danceable AND melodic. All Radiohead's '90s songs are wack in comparison, by MOST PEOPLE's musical standards. Like it or not, alternative rock is not all music. And the exact things alternative rock fans love most, are disliked by most people who like music.

1991 (note: 25 years ago!) was the last year when alternative or modern (i.e. post punk) rock music was the most popular music around, and that was only briefly true. 1984 (32 years ago!) was probably the last time any form of rock music was the dominant form for extended periods of time, and to say that, you need to define things like Born in the USA, Purple Rain and maybe even Thriller itself, as rock music. While many today would agree those are rock albums and MJ's work at least contains a few rock songs, people in 1984 would mostly have considered everything MJ and 1984-era Springsteen and Prince as "pop" (in just the same way Grimes is considered as "pop" today by many people, rather than rock). You have to go back to maybe 1971 (45 years ago!!) before you find unabashed rock music ruling the pop charts.

Music listeners for decades, for most of all of our lifetimes, have preferred other genres (often ones more similar to King of Limbs) over rock. This is true if we are millennials, post millennials or even, gen xers- bear in mind Thom, an xer, was three years old in 1971 the last time rock truly dominated commercially. Rock has always been an "alternative" (i.e. unusual) taste since the Beatles broke up and Hendrix died. So this idea is completely absurd, that the guitarriest or rock-iest Radiohead songs are somehow the most easy for casual listeners, or new fans. If anything, the only albums we should ever recommend to new fans (unless we know for sure that they love ROCK music, or another hugely unusual taste, Kid A style experimental music) is The King of Limbs, followed by In Rainbows.