Happy release day to KID A MNESIA, out now in shops and streaming online: https://t.co/vNhLUhzmdQ

Here is Pyramid Song, live from Paris in April 2001: https://t.co/dLJ0v0gR9T

— Radiohead (@radiohead) November 5, 2021

Kid A Mnesia was released via XL Recordings to wide critical acclaim, with NME’s Andrew Trendell saying that the third disc “feels like as much a complete album as you could hope for.” The band have physical copies of the album available, including black vinyl, cassette, and CD. In addition, a 360-page book that compiles artwork from the Kid A and Amnesiac eras by Stanley Donwood and Radiohead’s own Thom Yorke has been released alongside the album. All of these can be found on the band’s website.

Radiohead released two singles from the third disc ahead of the album’s release; “Follow Me Around” and “If You Say The Word”. “Follow Me Around” has been performed live a number of times over the years before its official release. Also, there is a high-quality soundcheck performance of the song on Radiohead’s 1998 film Meeting People Is Easy. The song is stripped down, consisting solely of an acoustic guitar and Thom Yorke’s voice, whereas “If You Say The Word” is more in stride with the sound of Kid A, featuring a melancholic finger-picked guitar accompanied by eerie background synthesiser sounds and a trudging drum beat.

In addition to the release of the album, Radiohead has also collaborated with Epic Games to create an interactive experience entitled Kid A Mnesia Exhibition. The release date coincided with the album’s release, and it is available on PlayStation 5, macOS and Windows. The “game” of sorts is described by Epic Games as being an “upside down digital/analogue universe” featuring artwork by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, and sound design by Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich.

Kid A Mnesia is available on all streaming services and can also be purchased on Bandcamp. The tracklist of the third disc, which features previously unheard and unreleased material, is listed down below.

Side 1

“Like Spinning Plates” (‘why Us?’ Version)
“Untitled V1”
“Fog” (Again Again Version)
“If You Say The Word”
“Follow Me Around”

Side 2
“Pulk/Pull” (True Love Waits Version)
“Untitled V2”
“The Morning Bell” (In The Dark Version)
“Pyramid Strings”
“Alt. Fast Track”
“Untitled V3”
“How To Disappear Into Strings”

The song itself is very stripped back and certainly inhabits the same musical vein as many of the songs on OK Computer, with the entire track consisting of no more than a moody acoustic guitar and Thom Yorke’s vocals. In addition to “Follow Me Around”, Radiohead also recently released a previously unheard track entitled “If You Say The Word”, an atmospheric, hypnotic slow burner.

This song will also be featured on the upcoming Kid A Mnesia record, which will be released on November 5^th by XL Recordings. Kid A Mnesia will be a triple album, and is being released for the 21^st anniversary of both Kid A and Amnesiac. The album will feature both Kid A and Amnesiac in their entirety, along with a third disc of unreleased material from those same recording sessions. The band have released music videos for both of these singles, which can be viewed at the Youtube links below, or on the band’s YouTube channel.

In other recent news regarding Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood has recently shared music from his score to Pablo Larrain’s Spencer, which stars Kristen Stewart as the late Princess Diana. The full score will be released on November 12^th via Mercury KX. You can read more about this here. Furthermore, and in light of Kid A’s 21^st anniversary, Thom Yorke recently spoke to NME regarding the album, sharing the fact that he faced writer’s block during the writing process.

Yorke said of his bout with writer’s block; “We finished touring and I was sort of trapped in my own particular labyrinth, followed by this weird sort of [inner] monologue, a criticism of everything I did… it came from being sort of propelled into this weird state where people were projecting things onto me in a particular way. I didn’t have the right sort of support mechanisms to deal with it, so I internalised a lot of it.”

Kid A Mnesia will be released on numerous different vinyl variants, and in addition, two books by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood that contain visual art conceived around the Kid A/Amnesiac era will be released on November 4^th. You can pre-order the album here, and the track list for the third CD on Kid A Mnesia can be viewed below.

Side 1
“Like Spinning Plates” (‘why Us?’ Version)
“Untitled V1”
“Fog” (Again Again Version)
“If You Say The Word”
“Follow Me Around”

Side 2
“Pulk/Pull” (True Love Waits Version)
“Untitled V2”
“The Morning Bell” (In The Dark Version)
“Pyramid Strings”
“Alt. Fast Track”
“Untitled V3”
“How To Disappear Into Strings”