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According to Consequence of Sound, the song "sounds like nothing else Radiohead has ever written", with country and folk elements. [80] "Cut a Hole" Radiohead debuted "Cut a Hole" on the King of Limbs tour in 2012. [81] The song builds gradually to a climax, with "menacing" lyrics about a "long-distance connection". [81]
[1] [3] Kid A followed in October 2000, topping the charts in the UK and becoming first number-one Radiohead album on the US Billboard 200. [3] [5] Amnesiac was released in May 2001, topping the UK charts and producing the singles "Pyramid Song" and "Knives Out". Hail to the Thief was released in June 2003, ending Radiohead's contract with EMI ...
Radiohead hoped to tour the US using a custom-built tent as they had for the Kid A tour in Europe, but met opposition from Clear Channel Entertainment and Ticketmaster, which Yorke said had a monopoly on American live music. Radiohead considered abandoning touring in the US, but felt this would have been a defeat. [7]
Abingdon School, where the band formed. The members of Radiohead met while attending Abingdon School, a private school for boys in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. [2] The guitarist and singer Thom Yorke and the bassist Colin Greenwood were in the same year; the guitarist Ed O'Brien was one year above, and the drummer Philip Selway was in the year above O'Brien. [3]
OK Computer is the third studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 21 May 1997.With their producer, Nigel Godrich, Radiohead recorded most of OK Computer in their rehearsal space in Oxfordshire and the historic mansion of St Catherine's Court in Bath in 1996 and early 1997.
Later that month, Radiohead performed their then-biggest-ever show at the RDS Arena in Dublin, Ireland. [11] [12] The performance was held in windy and rainy conditions. [13] The song was inspired by a dream Yorke had on the night of this show, [14] in which he was running naked down Dublin's River Liffey and being pursued by a tidal wave. [15]
Instead of releasing traditional music videos for Kid A, Radiohead commissioned dozens of 10-second videos featuring Donwood artwork they called "blips", which were aired on music channels and distributed online. [90] Pitchfork described them as "context-free animated nightmares that radiated mystery", with "arch hints of surveillance". [91]
In Rainbows is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Radiohead.It was self-released on 10 October 2007 as a pay-what-you-want download, followed by a retail release internationally through XL Recordings on 3 December 2007 and in North America through TBD Records on 1 January 2008.