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Radiohead·50 min · 10 tracks

After touring OK Computer, Thom Yorke was burned out and could not write on guitar anymore. So the band started over with synthesizers, samplers, and a 1920s electronic instrument called the ondes Martenot. Some lyrics were literally pulled out of a hat. They released it in October 2000 with no singles and no videos, and the strangest record of their career went straight to number one in the UK and the US.

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