After "Kid A" had been played for critics, the "Guardian "wrote of the "muted electronic hums, pulses and tones", predicting that it would confuse listeners. Many critics bemoaned the lack of guitar, obscured vocals, and unconventional song structures, and some called the album "a commercial suicide note". "Mojo" wrote that "upon first listen, "Kid A" is just awful ... Too often it sounds like the fragments that they began the writing process with – a loop, a riff, a mumbled line of text, have been set in concrete and had other, lesser ideas piled on top." "Guardian" critic Adam Sweeting wrote that "even listeners raised on krautrock or Ornette Coleman will find "Kid A" a mystifying experience", and that it pandered to "the worst cliches" about Radiohead's "relentless miserabilism".