Thom Yorke sings on Flying Lotus's Until the Quiet Comes

Flying Lotus's fourth album, Until the Quiet Comes, is out today on Warp (tomorrow in North America), and Thom Yorke sings on “Electric Candyman”, track 14 of 18. It is the second time Yorke has sung for Flying Lotus, the Los Angeles producer Steven Ellison, after “And the World Laughs with You” on Cosmogramma in 2010.

Ellison had not counted on a second. I didn't even expect him to do something on this album. I thought he was done with me³, he told Spin in July. Now that they know each other, he sends Yorke music without being asked, his own and other people's, and one track drew an offer from Yorke. He reacted to this one track and asked: 'What was up with that track? I think I got something for that.'³

Last month he told Digital Spy that he had once fancied remixing a song from The King of Limbs, until everybody was being asked to make them. The thing about Thom is that he knows what he likes and I love that about him⁵, he said.

The biggest surprise to me in getting to know him is that he's a funny guy. He's the jokey one.

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, he told Rolling Stone in July.

Flying Lotus's “Electric Candyman”, with Thom Yorke, from Until the Quiet Comes, Warp, 2012· Flying Lotus - Topicwatch on youtube →