Radiohead has released a surprise live album featuring songs from their sixth album, Hail to the Thief. This collection consists of performances recorded from 2003 to 2009 in cities such as London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Dublin. The album was mixed by Ben Baptie and mastered by Matt Colton but omits two tracks, "Backdrifts" and "A Punch Up at a Wedding." Thom Yorke stated that hearing the live recordings helped him in building arrangements for a theatre production of Hamlet and described the process as cathartic. The album is available for streaming and physical pre-order.
In the process of thinking of how to build arrangements for the Shakespeare Hamlet/Hail To The Thief theatre production, I asked to hear some archive live recordings of the songs, and I was shocked by the kind of energy behind the way we played.
We decided to get these live recordings mixed and released; it would have been insane to keep them for ourselves. It has all been a very cathartic process. We very much hope you enjoy them.
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