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Kid A is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 2 October 2000 by Parlophone.It was recorded with their producer, Nigel Godrich, in Paris, Copenhagen, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.
The lyrics address themes of escape, social alienation, the search for peace, emotional turmoil, and dissociation, which is sometimes used as a way to deal with stress or trauma. [72] John Hugar of Uproxx wrote that the song is "about being so miserable you just want to escape into the void, into the nothingness, having never been part of this ...
According to Consequence of Sound, the song "sounds like nothing else Radiohead has ever written", with country and folk elements. [80] "Cut a Hole" 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]
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.
Abingdon School, where Radiohead formed. The members of Radiohead met while attending Abingdon School, a private school for boys in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. [2] The guitarist and singer Thom Yorke and the bassist Colin Greenwood were in the same year; the guitarist Ed O'Brien was one year above, and the drummer Philip Selway was in the year above O'Brien. [3]
He felt the political lyrics and bleak mood put Radiohead in danger of self-parody. [71] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice wrote that while its melodies and guitar work are "never as elegiac and lyrical" or "articulate and demented" as those of OK Computer, it flowed better. [88] He later awarded it an "honourable mention". [89]
“Not many things scare me, but I was concerned,” he said. “I had to go under for one of them … I was going to be under anesthesia,” he said about the medical tests.
Radiohead planned to create an art installation based on the albums, but this was canceled due to logistical problems and the COVID-19 pandemic. [16] Instead, a digital experience, Kid A Mnesia Exhibition , was released in November as a free download for PlayStation 5 , macOS and Windows . [ 16 ]