An Alternate Radiohead: Kid B
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| Released | November 12, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 4 January 1999 – March 23 2001 | |||
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| Length | 1:43:54 | |||
| Label | Independently released | |||
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Kid B is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 12 November 2001 independently. It was recorded with their producer, Nigel Godrich, in Paris, Copenhagen, Glouchestershire, and Oxfordshire.
After the stress of promoting Radiohead's 1997 album OK Computer, and eventual breakdown, the songwriter, Thom Yorke, wanted to depart from rock music. Drawing influence from electronic music, ambient music, krautrock, jazz and 20th-century classical music, Radiohead used instruments such as modular synthesisers, the ondes Martenot, brass and strings. They processed guitar sounds, incorporated samples and loops, and manipulated their recordings with software. Yorke wrote impersonal and abstract lyrics, cutting up phrases and assembling them at random.