Radiohead are gearing up for the 20-year anniversary of their groundbreaking 1997 record OK Computer, and as part of the festivities (Radiohead love festivities), they have revealed a track recorded for the album that hit the cutting-home floor.
It’s a beautiful song, but it’s quite easy to see why it was left off the album — it contains none of the stark, dystopic feel of the other ballads that made the album, and sonically sits closer to something that would have appeared on their previous album, The Bends.
Still, it’s a glorious track, and they’ve shown a lot of restraint to sit on this gem for twenty years (although Steve Lamacq suggests the band may have assumed the song was lost). It is one of three unheard tracks that will feature on the album’s extended release, OKNOTOK.
Listen to it below, along with a few insights from BBC’s Steve Lamacq, below.
