Thom Yorke releases his nine-minute “Creep (Very 2021 Rmx)”

Thom Yorke has released “Creep (Very 2021 Rmx)”, the full version of the slowed “Creep” he made for Jun Takahashi's Undercover show in Tokyo in March. It is out today on XL Recordings as a digital single, credited to Thom Yorke featuring Radiohead. The cover art and the animated video are by Takahashi, the Japanese fashion designer behind Undercover.

In a short statement with the single, Yorke calls it my re-imagined remix version of Creep for 2021, 30 years later¹. Done for my friend Jun Takahashi, and for a world that is seemingly turning upside down.¹ The two have worked together before: according to Stereogum, in 2017 Yorke and Jonny Greenwood made a Radiohead megamix for Undercover's show at Paris Fashion Week.

The remix runs nine minutes, more than twice the length of the original, which Parlophone put out as a single in September 1992. It stays slow the whole way through, Yorke's voice stretched out over scratchy acoustic guitar until synthesisers come in late on.

Thom Yorke's Creep (Very 2021 Rmx), released on XL Recordings in July 2021· Thom Yorkewatch on youtube →