Jonny Greenwood on Musikbyrån

Swedish television's Musikbyrån talks to Colin and Jonny Greenwood as Kid A comes out, and one of them explains why there will be no videos. Theirs were okay when they were made and now look like TV adverts, which always look comical two or three years later. Better that “Street Spirit” brings back the first time you heard it than white horses in black and white. “Creep” held them up so long that The Bends, written and all but finished, came out a year or more late, which made the band's name and cost them a whole record. For Kid A they went back to how drum machines were built in the 70s and 80s, from basic electrical signals, and learnt to stop. They rarely release anything as empty as “Idioteque”.