{"id":485648,"date":"2019-05-09T09:34:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=832973"},"modified":"2019-05-09T09:34:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:34:15","slug":"thom-yorke-discusses-anxious-dystopian-new-solo-lp-kid-a-anniversary-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/thom-yorke-discusses-anxious-dystopian-new-solo-lp-kid-a-anniversary-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Thom Yorke Discusses Anxious, Dystopian New Solo LP, \u2018Kid A\u2019 Anniversary Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thom Yorke<\/a> has revealed the sound and themes of his upcoming solo album in a cover story for Crack<\/em> magazine<\/a>. The album is reportedly being released by XL Recordings. It will be the Radiohead<\/a> frontman\u2019s third proper solo LP, and his first since 2014\u2019s Tomorrow\u2019s Modern Boxes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In a wide-ranging Q&A, Yorke described the new record as an anxiety-fueled electronic nightmare of a dystopian world \u2014 in other words, a Thom Yorke album. Author J.G. Ballard, avant-garde musician Scott Walker, and the improvisatory live shows of Flying Lotus all came up as influences, as did Yorke\u2019s literal bad dreams.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave you ever flown to Tokyo?\u201d he said. \u201cThat jet lag is the definition of an existential crisis, every time. There was one night where I\u2019d go to sleep, two hours later I\u2019m absolutely wide awake and I just had these images \u2026 humans and rats changed places. A dream. And as I came out, I woke up with this really strong set of images of girls in tottering heels, but they\u2019re actually rats and the human beings are in the drains. I had another one, these weird images of the city of London and all the skyscrapers are just shuffling along.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yorke told the magazine that the new album, which he made with longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich, follows a period of \u201cdreadful writer\u2019s block.\u201d \u201cThings slowed down for a while and I\u2019m happy I can work again and come back into focus,\u201d he said. \u201cI seemed to spend a lot of time in my basement, in the studio for two years, and suddenly everything that was kicking around in there is starting to come out.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also confirmed that Radiohead have been examining their archives as the 20th anniversary of 2000\u2019s groundbreaking Kid A<\/a><\/em> approaches. Earlier this spring, when Radiohead were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, drummer Phil Selway told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> that the band would likely do \u201ca similar thing\u201d to the 20th anniversary OK Computer<\/em> package they released in 2017: \u201cWe\u2019ve not listened back to the outtakes and the other things we were working. I know there\u2019s a wealth of stuff there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to Crack<\/em>, Yorke, who skipped the Rock Hall ceremony, said that those plans are now underway: \u201cRecently, I\u2019ve been going through the Kid A<\/em> and Amnesiac<\/em> stuff with the others. We were all a bit mad by the end of that period\u2026.  I was so focused and at the same time angry, confused, paranoid. I\u2019m looking at all these people involved, going \u2018Who the fuck are these people?!\u2019 We\u2019re going to do something really cool with all that material.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yorke concluded a U.S. tour mostly devoted to songs from Tomorrow\u2019s Modern Boxes<\/em> in December. He has a string of new solo tour dates in Europe coming up this July, and in October, he\u2019ll return to the U.S. for the Austin City Limits festival, where he is officially billed<\/a> as \u201cThom Yorke Tomorrow\u2019s Modern Boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thom Yorke has revealed the sound and themes of his upcoming solo album in a cover story for Crack magazine. The album is reportedly being released by XL Recordings. It will be the Radiohead frontman\u2019s third proper solo LP, and his first since 2014\u2019s Tomorrow\u2019s Modern Boxes. In a wide-ranging Q&A, Yorke described the new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 23:23:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}