Is that really the point? Because Kid A is definitely not a bunch of conventional songs. So therefore mood and sound are the priorities. I think that basically, you have a set of sounds in your head and regardless of the consequences, that's what you have to do and that's what you have to get onto tape.
It would be really easy to make a record that was difficult in all the worst senses of the word. I wouldn't say we were trying to make it difficult though. From Radiohead’s perspective, the question is: are you prepared to take that step too?ĭAVE FANNING: OK Thom, Kid A is pretty mind-blowing music there's no question about it, but it's hard work. Kid A is another step in what has been one of contemporary music’s most dizzying journeys. But, as Thom Yorke points out here, Radiohead have never been a band to impose artistic limits upon themselves. It’s easily their most adventurous to date, with the conventional song format having been largely abandoned in favour of abstract sound textures.Īlready the detractors are out in force. Now, Radiohead are poised to release their fourth album, Kid A. While some thrilled to the new album’s complexity, others lamented the move away from the visceral power of the bands earlier work. Their third album, OK Computer, was simultaneously dense and sprawling, the landscape it explored one of disorientation and disillusionment. Epic, anguished hymns like the title track, ‘High and Dry’, ‘Fake Plastic Trees’ and ‘My Iron Lung’ packed an emotional punch way beyond that of most music at the time the melodies and soaring guitars were equally exhilarating.īut Radiohead have never been prepared to stand still. It was the second album which catapulted them into the major league.
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