“Bodysnatchers” by Radiohead

"Bodysnatchers" is the feral, clattering heart of In Rainbows, Radiohead's seventh album, released in 2007, and it was cut in a single burst. Thom Yorke has said it's the one song on the record they nailed in a single take, all playing at once, in a room at Tottenham House, a run-down country pile in Marlborough, Wiltshire, whose atmosphere he said seeped into the sessions. Nigel Godrich produced and mixed it.

Yorke described it as Neu! crossed with dodgy hippy rock, and the lyric draws on Victorian ghost stories and The Stepford Wives. He and Jonny Greenwood had first aired it in London in May 2006. Sent to American modern rock radio in 2008, it gave the band their highest placing on that chart since "Creep".

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