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Here's our cover of the newly released "I Promise" to be on Radiohead's upcoming OKNOTOK 1997 - 2017 re-issue of OK Computer, one of my favourite albums.

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“What really pisses me off is this idea that I am this tortured artist.”

He smiles. Sort of. The songwriter who penned “How to Disappear Completely” and “Creep” and who led the charge to smear Radiohead’s resplendent guitars into a mass of swirling loops, asserts he is no miserable nutter, not a simple sum of his morose, forlorn lyrics.

“That is something based on flimsy evidence which is endlessly being projected back onto us. It is just reductive and dull. In order to be creative there has to be a distance from you and the thing itself. It is only when the distance gets confused that things go wrong. If you actually start to believe that you are what you write, then you have fucking had it. You have had it and you ain’t coming back. To assume that everything is about somebody’s life is to assume that that person is inherently stupid and isn’t capable of absorbing anything else. The whole point of creativity is that you spend your whole life absorbing things almost to where it is unbearable. The way you deal with it is get it out.”

Pulse, july 2001

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Finished!

A calendar I did with illustrations inspired by every track in OK Computer. Available in my shop.

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Here’s my new cover of ‘Big Boots’ ..

I think we’re addicted to doing un-officially released Radiohead tracks.. Was obsessed with this one since I watched them record it on “Meeting People is Easy”. Thought we’d do a version that incorporated parts from their live versions, demos & that unfinished studio one from the documentary. x

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Q: How does mental health impact your music? Thom: Well, it’s interesting because one of the things—for me, um—one of the things that I find most offensive about what people say about [Radiohead’s] music is when they say it’s “depressing”…The reason I find it offensive is that to me it implies that to suffer from depression is like being subnormal or..or..It’s a stigma, and it shouldn’t be because there’s an awful lot of people who suffer from depression and it shouldn’t be something that’s like an ultimate swear word. Because I suffer from it and a lot of people suffer from it and it should be something that’s openly discussed and accepted rather than, like—you know, I happen to make music sometimes when I’m in that frame of mind because I suffer from it. Actually sometimes it’s not suffering, sometimes it’s a bonus, but sometimes it *is* a mental illness and it means I have empathy with other mental illnesses because sometimes I feel that I’m close to certain things that could end up—y'know, trap doors as I once called them that I could fall through… I really have a problem with people who dismiss our own music on the grounds that it’s depressing because a lot of creative power is from that feeling.

Thom Yorke (Musique Plus Interview) 2003 [x] @msyorke (via saddadrock)