Thom Yorke's scrapbook goes on UNDERCOVER T-shirts

UNDERCOVER, the Japanese label of the designer Jun Takahashi, is putting out an UNDERCOVER x Thom Yorke collection of T-shirts and sweatshirts printed with sketches and poems from Yorke's scrapbook. In March 2021 Yorke's slowed rework of “Creep” soundtracked UNDERCOVER's autumn/winter show in Tokyo.

The designs include “Thom Yorke University” T-shirts, Michael Avedon's portraits of Yorke drawn over with eyes, and “Pain & Confusion” tops with poetry running down the back. They go on sale on 15 November online and at UNDERCOVER's shops in Tokyo and Osaka. Yorke's solo tour of Japan opens at Grand Cube Osaka on 12 November and ends in Kyoto on 26 November. On the tour itself he is selling a limited 12-inch of Thom Yorke: Live from Electric Lady Studios, the first time the session has been pressed on vinyl. Its four songs were filmed at the New York studio in November 2018 and released as a video the following January.

It was Yorke's idea. He brought the pages, kept over the last several years, and Takahashi, a friend, picked which to print.