Radiohead on Radio Juxtapoz

Kid A Mnesia began after the OK Computer anniversary reissue, when Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood were approached about doing something similar again. There was material for it because they have always made far more work than a record can carry. A booklet has a fixed number of pages and a sleeve a fixed number of surfaces, so most of what gets made around a project is never seen.

Yorke did not want to revisit this record at first. The period had been hard for everyone and he doubted it would be healthy. Being offered a full retrospective rather than a repackaging changed his mind.

Doug Gillen and Evan Pricco, for the art magazine's podcast, keep the talk on pictures more than records, and Donwood remembers the technology of the time. Both had come out of printmaking and neither expected to end up making real marks by hand. He describes buying a scanner and a graphics tablet and the two of them behaving like children shown how the future worked. The early internet, he says, was a blank sketchbook, limited and open to anything.