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Radiohead: Kid A
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Radiohead: Kid A

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Thom Yorke and Phil Selway sit down with broadcaster Sook-Yin Lee to talk through the making of Kid A, Radiohead's fourth album and the record that dropped the guitar-driven sound of OK Computer for synthesizers, the Ondes Martenot, and songs built more like collage than verse-chorus structures. The band recorded across Paris, Copenhagen, and Oxford with producer Nigel Godrich, and Yorke describes the shift less as an artistic statement than a reflection of what he was actually listening to at the time, from Krautrock to jazz to twentieth-century classical composers. The film touches on the record's stripped-back promotion, no singles, no videos, just Stanley Donwood's artwork and a series of short animated "blip" films, and how that approach still put the album at number one in the US and the UK within its first week. Archival performance footage runs alongside the interviews, including the track "Everything in Its Right Place," giving a sense of how the songs translated once the band had to play this new material live.