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Thom Yorke's “Harrowdown Hill” enters the UK chart at number 23
Thom Yorke's “Harrowdown Hill” has gone into the Official Singles Chart at number 23 in its first week, in the chart announced today, with Beyoncé and Jay-Z's “Deja Vu” at number one. On the chart company's physical singles chart, which counts only CDs and records, it is a new entry at number 13, and on its independent chart at number three.
XL Recordings released the single last Monday, 21 August, the day after Radiohead finished headlining both V Festival sites, Hylands Park in Chelmsford and Weston Park in Staffordshire. It is the first single from The Eraser and Yorke's first in his own name, in editions Discogs lists as limited to 10,000 CDs and 5,000 seven-inches. The CD carries “The Drunkk Machine” and the seven-inch “Jetstream”, and neither song is on the album.
Mike Diver, reviewing it for Drowned in Sound on release day, gave it 8 out of 10 and rated its rhythm track the thing the album's reviewers had missed. The song takes its name from the hill in Oxfordshire where Dr David Kelly, the government weapons scientist, was found dead in 2003.
Harrowdown Hill, UK release, 21 August 2006 (XL Recordings)
| # | Format | Catalogue | Tracks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CD | XLS 238CD | “Harrowdown Hill” (4:42); “The Drunkk Machine” (4:07); “Harrowdown Hill” (extended mix, 7:02) |
| 2 | Seven-inch | XLS 238 | A: “Harrowdown Hill” (4:35); B: “Jetstream” (3:41) |