Incredibly, Radiohead’s The Bends is 30 years old, having been released on 13 March 1995. Their second album after 1993’s Pablo Honey clearly marked a road ahead that Radiohead would increasingly make all their own.
While their debut pulled all the right strings to land them 1990s-guitar-band record company buy-in (and dutifully birthing global hit Creep), The Bends is the band doing what they’d rather have been doing instead.
