Signifcant longplayers from yesteryear
2 October 2025
RADIOHEAD released their fourth LP KID A
this day 25 years ago, on 2 October 2000.
The band incorporated influences from electronic music, krautrock, jazz and
20th-century classical music, with a wider range of instruments and all sorts
of effects. Yorke wrote impersonal and abstract lyrics, cutting up phrases
and assembling them at random.
Following the critical and commercial success of their 1997 album
OK Computer, the members of Radiohead suffered burnout.
Thom Yorke became ill, describing himself as
“a complete fucking mess, completely unhinged“.
Pitchfork wrote: “The experience and emotions tied to listening to Kid A
are like witnessing the stillborn birth of a child while simultaneously having
the opportunity to see her play in the afterlife on Imax. It’s an album of
parking paradox.
It’s cacophonous yet tranquil, experimental yet familiar, foreign yet womb-like,
spacious yet visceral, textured yet vaporous, awakening yet dreamlike, infinite
yet 48 minutes.”
Thom Yorke: “We toyed with the idea of making it a double album,
but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so
we decided to stick with the songs we picked.”
KEY SINGLE
ALBUM
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Back on the road this Fall.
