Thom Yorke is surprised that Radiohead still has fans

by Richard Howard

June 28, 2016

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'I cherish the band, but I don’t expect anyone else to.'

If you find yourself discussing the differences between Radiohead’s older and newer music with serious fans, a full-out brawl isn’t entirely out of the question. Proponents of the post-Kid A Radiohead tend to deem the preceding albums as being before the band hit their stride, while the other group will argue till the cows come home that OK Computer is by far their finest work.

Well, what does Radiohead’s frontman and principal songwriter think about the incredibly polarizing nature of his discography? True to form, Thom Yorke’s recent comments to Q Magazine (via NME) on the success of their new album A Moon Shaped Pool will probably just throw more fuel on the fire.

“We expected the opposite reaction… I cherish the band, but I don’t expect anyone else to.”

So now, while chucking pint glasses at each other across the pub, fans of early Radiohead can claim “See? Even Thom doesn’t expect anyone to like this new bleep-blorp stuff,” while those enjoying the band’s current incarnation will argue Yorke is just pointing out the latter group is too dumb to understand the newer music.

The band itself certainly doesn’t have anything to worry about; despite Yorke’s belief that fans may have abandoned Radiohead since 2011’s The King of Limbs, the critical and commercial success of A Moon Shaped Pool (with the most minimal of promotion, no less) is showing that a ton of people enjoy the bleep-blorp stuff just fine.

[h/t Consequence of Sound]

Tags: Music, News, a moon shaped pool, fans, q magazine, Radiohead, Thom Yorke

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