“Kid A” by Radiohead

"Kid A" is the title track of Radiohead's fourth studio album, the 2000 record on which they left their earlier sound behind, pulling in electronic music, jazz, krautrock and 20th-century classical. The writing credit goes to all five members, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway, and Nigel Godrich produced it with the band and engineered and mixed it too, with Gerard Navarro and Graeme Stewart adding engineering.

The album was made with Godrich across Paris, Copenhagen, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, and Yorke built its lyrics by chopping phrases apart and reassembling them at random. With no singles issued from the record at all, a track like this one had to find its way onto radio on its own terms.

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