“Planet Telex” by Radiohead

"Planet Telex" grew out of Radiohead messing around with drum loops in the studio, and it wound up on The Bends, the band's second album, before going out on Parlophone in February 1995 as one half of a double A-side with "High and Dry". John Leckie produced, with Nigel Godrich among the engineers.

It's a woozy, swirling thing, Thom Yorke's voice smeared across a bed of keyboards: Jonny Greenwood stacks synthesizer, organ and piano on top of his guitar, Ed O'Brien adds guitar and backing vocals, and Caroline Lavelle's cello and John Matthias's viola and violin darken the edges. Colin Greenwood and Philip Selway keep the loop-born groove steady underneath. All five share the writing credit, with the words Yorke's.

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