Thom Yorke on BBC

The interviewer opens, in February 2013, by asking Thom Yorke how hard Amok, the Atoms for Peace record, was to make on a scale of one to ten.

The answer takes him backwards. The most traumatic record remains The Bends, with a difficult stretch during the mixing of OK Computer. The interviewer brings up an old story about him miking up a piece of cardboard during those sessions, which Yorke corrects to a bicycle wheel, and then suggests that pushing bits of electronics at a bicycle spoke and what he does now are essentially the same activity. Yorke agrees without hesitation.

Everyone goes slightly mad, he says, when they are trying to reach something and have not reached it yet, and film directors are no different.

Amok was the opposite. It came out of enjoying playing with a new set of people, having almost no material to offer them, and finding out what they made of the fragments.

It started when he emailed Flea and Joey Waronker on a Friday afternoon and told himself that if they replied that day he would do it. They replied within hours.