Radiohead, probably more so than any artist this writer can think of, have a colourful and successful history of resurrecting and repurposing their old tracks.

But did they find fluff or cash beneath the sofa cushions? The third disc, ‘Kid Amnesiae’, offers fans 12 tracks of “half-remembered, half-forgotten sessions and unreleased material”. So let’s get our teeth into something new…ish. We don’t need to review them again, mind, that would be silly. With ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’ being housed together for the first time, they make for a pretty perfect double album. The move was predicted at the time to be career suicide (this was when Coldplay and Travis took their melancholy indie format and slapped a stadium-ready smile across its face), but is today seen as a vital moment in the survival of Radiohead, the evolution of ‘indie’ and providing a soundtrack for the dumpster fire century to follow.Ģ0 years on, these two records are now being celebrated with ‘Kid A Mnesia’. With ample material left over, the band then released the sister record ‘ Amnesiac’ a year later which contained more ‘traditional’ Radiohead songs – but it still felt like a brave, new, dystopian world. In came a fractured montage of jazzy sounds, krautrock beats, ambient atmosphere, electronica and millennial dread, as frontman Thom Yorke squawked of an “ ice age coming” and a world where “ everyone has got the fear” on the reinvention that was ‘ Kid A’ in 2000. They had to become a new band again.Īrena choruses and melodic guitars were out, for a start.

For Radiohead, they’d reached their limit with the opulent grandeur of their 1997 art-rock masterpiece ‘ OK Computer’ and the pressures of the matching stratospheric success that came with it. Starting again is never easy, but it’s often essential.

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