Thom Yorke, Burial and Four Tet's 12-inch sells out before anyone hears it

Text Records, Kieran Hebden's label, announced a 12-inch by Burial, Four Tet (Hebden himself) and Thom Yorke by email on Tuesday evening. The pre-orders at Rough Trade were gone the same night, before anyone had heard a note. Both tracks, “Ego” and “Mirror”, got their first play at 11pm on Rinse FM, the London station, in a back-to-back session by Four Tet and Floating Points. Beats Per Minute reported that so many people tried to tune in that the station's site crashed, and only some of them heard it.

Hebden had already remixed “Atoms for Peace”, from Yorke's solo album The Eraser. Four Tet and Burial made a 12-inch together in 2009, “Moth” backed with “Wolf Cub”, and that one sold out fast too. On 9 March Yorke played an unannounced DJ set at Low End Theory, the Los Angeles club night, and Burial's music was in it. The record is his first release since Radiohead put out The King of Limbs as a download in February.

On “Ego” Yorke's voice starts somewhere at the back and comes forward as the track builds, with a piano flourish late in the track. “Mirror” has a stretch where he sings almost unaccompanied. Beats Per Minute has a review of both tracks.

It is out on 21 March, and Turntable Kitchen puts the pressing at 300 copies. Nothing is printed on the record, which comes in a plain black bag with a black label. The names, the titles and the catalogue number, TEXT010, are etched into the run-out grooves, which credit all three men on both sides, A and AA.

The record