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Radiohead released their ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool, in May 2016, [9] backed by the singles "Burn the Witch" [10] and "Daydreaming". [9] In June 2017, Radiohead released a 20th-anniversary OK Computer reissue, OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017, including unreleased tracks, [11] two of which were released as download singles: "I Promise" and ...
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 ] NME described it as "an atmospheric, shifting gloomathon" with a "head-flung-back vocal from Thom, climaxing with some of his highest notes since OK Computer ".
O'Brien used guitar reverbs and delay effects, creating a melody that sinks between the A and E chords. [78] The bassline enters at 0:23, [79] playing chords of F ♯ –A–B–E–C ♯, followed by two separate chords of E and F ♯. [77] The B♭ note ends at 1:37, the beginning of the chorus. [77]
The Bends combines guitar songs and ballads, with more restrained arrangements and cryptic lyrics than Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). Work began at RAK Studios, London, in February 1994. Tensions were high, with pressure from Parlophone to match sales of Radiohead's debut single, "Creep", and progress was slow.
The lyrics were inspired by the stress felt by the singer, Thom Yorke, while promoting Radiohead's album OK Computer (1997). Yorke wrote "Everything in Its Right Place" on piano. Radiohead worked on it in a conventional band arrangement before transferring it to synthesiser, and described it as a breakthrough in the album recording.
Lansky allowed Radiohead to use the sample after Greenwood wrote to him with a copy of "Idioteque". [6] In an essay about the experience, Lansky wrote that he found Radiohead's use of the sample "imaginative and inventive" and that he had himself "sampled" the chord progression by using the Tristan chord. [10] "
Radiohead promoted the reissue with two digital singles, the previously unreleased tracks "If You Say the Word" and "Follow Me Around". [98] Kid A Mnesia Exhibition , an interactive experience with music and artwork from the albums, was released on 18 November for PlayStation 5 , macOS and Windows .
Whereas Radiohead had developed In Rainbows from live performances, The King of Limbs developed from studio experimentation. [8] Yorke sought to move further from conventional recording methods. [1] The multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood said: "We didn't want to pick up guitars and write chord sequences. We didn't want to sit in front of a ...