Radiohead launch new company in advance of upcoming album

The founding of Dawn Chorus follows the same pattern that lead to the band’s last two surprise releases.

In the growing build up to Radiohead’s new album, the band’s Reddit page has been a tireless source of investigation into any possible information. Today, as Consequence Of Sound points out, those fans pulled up something that could hint at an imminent release.

Last October, the band established a new company called Dawn Chorus LLP (documents of which are available on the Reddit page in a Google Drive link). In the case of the Radiohead’s last two albums — 2007’s In Rainbows and 2011’s The King Of Limbs — the band launched them as surprise releases, but established a companies to support the releases before hand. King Of Limbs was preceded by Ticker Tape Ltd. while In Rainbows was preceded by Xurbia Xendless Ltd.

As the pattern goes, it would put a surprise release of the band’s untitled ninth LP fairly close to this time of year. Even more curious is a link dating back to a 2009 interview with Yorke where he was asked about his current favorite song he’s working on. The title? ‘Dawn Chorus’.

Last month Radiohead shared the new song, ‘Spectre’, listen to it below.

 RichardPrins wrote: 
That's almost as long as any Grateful Dead cover of "Not Fade Away".

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A coworker just told me about this reggae version of Ok Computer.
 
 
I might have to acquire that. How truly clever!  

PolyFauna

We have made an app called PolyFauna.

PolyFauna is an experimental collaboration between us (Radiohead) & Universal Everything, born out of The King of Limbs sessions and using the imagery and the sounds from the song Bloom.

It comes from an interest in early computer life-experiments and the imagined creatures of our subconscious.

Your screen is the window into an evolving world.
Move around to look around.
You can follow the red dot.
You can wear headphones.

DOWNLOAD: iOS  / Android

Thom

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 romeotuma wrote: 
Ooh! Thanks for reminding me! I hope the dvr got the whole thing, since we don't watch until the next day.

 dmax wrote: 
yep, that is neat. check that guy's channel, he has done pork-a-pie tree's trains too

he also recs headphones to really get the full effect of the "layering"

This is incredible. Incredible.

 

Radiohead's new album is awesome...  

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 Inamorato wrote: 
 
Done as well. Deeply moving.
 
Cut'n'pasted from BBC website, as the link may not work outside the UK; including the short but poignant and very pointed lyrics, all quotes from an interview with Harry just four years ago:
 
 
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World War I veteran Harry Patch will be buried tomorrow. The former plumber, who fought at the battle of Passchendaele in 1917, gave a< S ILIN > memorable interview < E ILIN > to Today reporter Mike Thomson in 2005.

Thom Yorke, lead singer of the band Radiohead, was moved by the interview to write a tribute to the veteran, inspired by Harry Patch's words.

The song can be < S ILIN > downloaded < E ILIN > from the Radiohead website - all profits will go to the Royal British Legion.

I am the only one that got through
The others died where ever they fell
It was an ambush
They came up from all sides
Give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
I've seen devils coming up from the ground
I've seen hell upon this earth
The next will be chemical but they will never learn

 

My favs are Subterranean Homesick Alien and Idioteque

 Inamorato wrote: 
Cheers!  Done.  And safe journey, Harry.

Radiohead has a new song available for download, "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)". The song is a tribute to Harry Patch, the last surviving combat soldier of World War I, who died last month. It can be downloaded from the Radiohead Website, Dead Air Space. The download costs £1.00 (~USD1.70) with all proceeds going to the Royal British Legion, a UK veteran's charity.

It's a lovely song and the lyrics are all quotes from Harry Patch, which makes it an antiwar piece. Go ahead, it's the right thing to do.