Whilst these records were being conceived,rehearsed,recorded and produced,Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made hundreds of images. These ranged from obsessive,insomniac scrawls in biro to six-foot-square painted canvases,from scissors-and-glue collages to immense digital landscapes. They utilised every medium they could find,from sticks and knives to the emerging digital technologies.
The work chronicles their obsessions at the time: minotaurs,genocide,maps,globalisation,monsters,pylons,dams,volcanoes,locusts,lightning,helicopters,Hiroshima,show homes and ring roads. What emerges is a deeply strange portrait of the years at the commencement of this century. A time that seems an age ago - but so much remains the same.
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781838857370Number of pages: 364Weight: 1700 gDimensions: 248 x 197 x 38 mmEdition: Main
MEDIA REVIEWS
'A celebration of the ideas,both written and drawn,that were behind the creation of the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac... Includes faxes,notes,scribblings and sketches that musician Yorke and artist Donwood exchanged in the run-up to the creation of two iconic albums'- Independent
'The themes they (explore) (global warming,government surveillance,the corrosive power of the internet) are still strikingly relevant'- Scotsman
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