Thom Yorke on Sirius XM

The interviewer had heard the Suspiria music before seeing the film and found it more frightening that way, which is close to how it was made. Thom Yorke worked largely from the script, and passes on Jonny Greenwood's advice not to look at the picture too much, because it makes a composer think in straight lines. He was not working in complete isolation from the images, he says, but much of it was experimenting against the text.

He rewatched the original film before agreeing, to check whether he would feel intimidated, and decided he would not, because the director was taking the premise somewhere entirely different and there was no question of going near what Goblin had done. He had known their score and been fascinated by its keyboard arpeggios, which he says are close to things his own band has attempted.

He jokes that melancholy is bought by the measure, then mixed with dread, death and a sense of the feminine and boiled up.

Between stretches of talk he plays pieces from the score at the piano.