Radiohead: Still Better Than Anyone At Keeping The Internet Interested In Their Music
Last week, Radiohead fanboys/girls got all upset thanks to someone taking the time to type out part of a Thom Yorke Interview from the July/August issue of The Believer in which the Radiohead frontman said that his band had sworn off the album format. “None of us want to get into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again,” Yorke told Ross Simonini. “It’s just become such a drag. It worked with In Rainbows because we had a real fixed idea about where we were going. But we’ve all said that we can’t possibly dive into that again. It’ll kill us.” Some people took this to mean that the band was breaking up and freaked out accordingly, but apparently that statement merely meant that they’d given up on the fusty old model of releasing multiple songs under the same umbrella—because yesterday, a new song by the band wormed its way onto the Internet! Behold, “These Are My Twisted Words,” which was unleashed via, naturally, a cryptic post on the band’s fan board AtEaseWeb:
The MP3—which is “out there,” for those of you who are feeling lucky—also had the following text embedded in its data:i just wanted to reassure readers that following representations seeking confirmation that before your very eyes behind the wall of ice that the box is not under threat however they are set to remove other boxes in fact i have the list in front of me i went to a briefing on their plans and challenged them to tell me exactly what the cost would be
they spoke in broad terms
Which I think means “Don’t worry, baby, everything will turn out alright.” But I’m sure there will be another 15,000 interpretations of the above statement between now and the time I click “post.” Radiohead – These Are My Twisted Words [YouTube] These Are My Twisted Words [Line Out via Consequence Of Sound]
