While Radiohead shook up the music industry almost a decade ago with the pay-what-you-want rollout of their In Rainbows LP, a new interview has frontman Thom Yorke explaining that he isn't so much interested in discovering non-traditional ways to release his music anymore.
Yorke did the talk with BBC Radio 1 host Benji B, who brought up how the singer's Tomorrow's Modern Boxes solo effort from 2014 was issued as a bundle through peer-to-peer service BitTorrent before arriving in traditional formats. From there, Yorke noted that figuring out how to disseminate albums is "sometimes frustrating," and that he'd rather just put out a record without any excess hype.
"Enough of that now. I've entirely had enough of that... Just put it out, man," he said. "No more fuss, just put it out. I'm getting too old for that bit. It takes away from things a bit, sometimes frustrating."
He added: "The energy of trying to figure out how to do it differently and circumvent the monsters and you're like... whatever."
It's unclear which "monsters" Yorke was referencing, but the band's recent A Moon Shaped Pool album was delivered on-the-sneak, having been announced just days before being released.
You can hear Yorke's talk with Benji B down below.
Despite seemingly distancing themselves from unconventional album drops, the band recently experimented with the Instagram platform by offering up a series of audio-visual vignettes.
Yorke did the talk with BBC Radio 1 host Benji B, who brought up how the singer's Tomorrow's Modern Boxes solo effort from 2014 was issued as a bundle through peer-to-peer service BitTorrent before arriving in traditional formats. From there, Yorke noted that figuring out how to disseminate albums is "sometimes frustrating," and that he'd rather just put out a record without any excess hype.
"Enough of that now. I've entirely had enough of that... Just put it out, man," he said. "No more fuss, just put it out. I'm getting too old for that bit. It takes away from things a bit, sometimes frustrating."
He added: "The energy of trying to figure out how to do it differently and circumvent the monsters and you're like... whatever."
It's unclear which "monsters" Yorke was referencing, but the band's recent A Moon Shaped Pool album was delivered on-the-sneak, having been announced just days before being released.
You can hear Yorke's talk with Benji B down below.
Despite seemingly distancing themselves from unconventional album drops, the band recently experimented with the Instagram platform by offering up a series of audio-visual vignettes.
