![]() ![]() The initial sessions evoked the same amount of success as their previous attempts to put together an album. ![]() Yorke had been working on his own for the most part, venturing into unknown territory with piano and synthesisers: tools he felt that he could program without having to pour himself emotionally into the music. After being plagued by false starts, they moved into a quaint, 17th-century mansion, known as Batsford Park. In April, the band attempted to restart their creative process. Yorke, who had more often than not provided the words and chords for each Radiohead release, struggled to inspire his bandmates with, what seemed to be, unfinished ideas. Reconvening in Paris in early 1999, before moving to a studio in Copenhagen just a month later, both attempts at putting words into music were left unresolved. When it came time to start writing the new album, the band struggled with self-doubt and writer’s block. Instead, he immersed himself in electronic works from the likes of LFO and Aphex Twin, rekindling his love of techno music from university. Yorke, himself, struggled with depression during this time and grew catatonic, paralysed by the sound of his own voice and unable to commit to fresh songwriting. ![]()
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