Radiohead have always been invested in the augmentation of electric guitar tone, laboring over novel ways to disguise it with pedals, to present it as something uncanny, something alien.
Ed O’Brien’s pedalboard is the kind of thing we’d like to see in the Smithsonian one day. As O’Brien explained to Guitar World in 2020, Radiohead regard their guitars merely as inputs, as raw materials for fresh new sounds.
