Discussing the making of Radiohead’s fourth record Kid A in an interview with Mojo magazine in 2001, guitarist Ed O’Brien said of its gruelling creation, “Phil, Colin and I went through some major dilemmas at various stages. How could we contribute to this new music? We all wondered if it wasn’t better to just walk away.”
It was the year 2000. Radiohead had established themselves as the most inventive, forward-thinking guitar band of the 90s, a band who’d followed one masterpiece (1995’s The Bends) with another masterpiece (1997’s OK Computer), albums that marched rock music into a whole new realm. Everyone wanted to know what they were going to do next.
