To these ears it’s one of the performances of his career, he begins sounding utterly wounded until – as if revelling in the places his voice is capable of taking the song – it ends up becoming something quite defiant. Yorke sounds mere millimetres from the mic, investing the performance with goosebump-inducing intimacy. And then a moment that totally stops you in your tracks – a minimal, piano and voice take on Motion Picture Soundtrack, later reworked as the closing track on Kid A. The collage-like nature of the tape continues: sound effects that do a decent job of mimicking a slow-motion explosion chilling strings that sound like precursors to Jonny Greenwood’s work on There Will Be Blood Yorke attempting to outscream Frank Black through a fuzz pedal.
On this showing it’s not quite an unreleased classic but fans will need to hear it It begins in a chirpy fashion, with bah-bahs not a million miles from Bacharach’s I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You or The Beach Boys’ I’d Love Just Once To See You, before Yorke coos sweetly about “the joy of the uprising” and a “brief release of some hope”.
Next comes a genuine surprise and a song that doesn’t appear to have previously surfaced online, despite the forensic approach that Radiohead enthusiasts take to the shadowy corners of their career. It suggests that the song was brought to the sessions fully-formed and is so strong that lesser bands may have left it that way, that they didn’t only emphasises the invention and wit poured into the arrangement of the final version.
But about seven minutes in a version of Let Down emerges from the bluster, all campfire-like acoustic guitars and double-tracked, resigned and vulnerable vocals from Yorke. It’s been described, with typical understatement, as a “mix of session archives”, suggesting it’s strictly for the hardcore.Īnd initially it feels that way dizzying bleeps, studio found sounds, pretty but inconsequential doodling about – the sort of thing that completists listen to once and then file away. For the utterly besotted there’s the now-customary “Super Deluxe” version, complete with a lavishly illustrated book and a C90 cassette, the contents of which appear to have gone under the radar in the run up to this release. Click to expand.Thank you for posting the link, madgeman.īut hang on, there’s more.
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