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Asked about a retrospective, Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood thought it sounded good and immediately did not want to do it. Yorke had long wanted to go back through the artwork of that period, though, because they had gone slightly mad over two years and a great deal of what they made had simply been lost. It has become two books and a digital exhibition built around the Kid A and Amnesiac artwork.

The exhibition was thwarted twice before it existed. The first plan, a large structure outside the museum, was dropped when it emerged that it would bring part of the building down. The second ran into Westminster council. Then the pandemic arrived, and since they had been designing it in 3D software anyway, they carried on and built it virtually, which removed every physical constraint at once.

Both tell Lauren Laverne that exhibition is the wrong word for it, and that it is not a game either, since there is nothing to win, nothing to collect and no way to lose.

Yorke also says music had become difficult in that period, and he changed lane into artwork until the mist cleared.