Where do you put Kid A on your Radiohead album list?

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Following the critical and commercial success of their 1997 album OK Computer, the members of Radiohead suffered burnout, and songwriter Thom Yorke suffered a mental breakdown.[1] Drummer Philip Selway said Radiohead worried that the success had "turned us into a one-trick band".[2] Bassist Colin Greenwood said: "We felt we had to change everything. There were other guitar bands out there trying to do similar things. We had to move on."[3] Guitarist Ed O'Brien had hoped Radiohead's fourth album would comprise "snappy", melodic guitar songs, but Yorke stated: "There was no chance of the album sounding like that. I'd completely had it with melody. I just wanted rhythm. All melodies to me were pure embarrassment."[2] Troubled by new acts he felt were imitating Radiohead,[4] Yorke believed his music had become part of a constant background noise he described as "fridge buzz",[5] and became hostile to the music media.[1][6] He told The Guardian: "I always used to use music as a way of moving on and dealing with things, and I sort of felt like that the thing that helped me deal with things had been sold to the highest bidder and I was simply doing its bidding. And I couldn't handle that."[1] He suffered from writer's block, and could not finish writing songs on guitar.[2] Yorke became disillusioned with the "mythology" of rock music, feeling the genre had "run its course".[4] He had been a DJ and part of a techno band at Exeter University,[4] and following OK Computer began to listen almost exclusively to the electronic music of Warp artists such as Aphex Twin: "It was refreshing because the music was all structures and had no human voices in it. But I felt just as emotional about it as I'd ever felt about guitar music."[1] He liked the idea of his voice being used as an instrument rather than having a leading role, and intended to move Radiohead from traditional songwriting and instead focus on sounds and textures.[7] He bought a house in Cornwall and spent his time walking the cliffs and drawing, restricting his musical activity to playing the grand piano he had recently bought.[8] "Everything in Its Right Place" was the first song he wrote on the piano.[8]

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Really been digging Moon Shaped Pool lately.

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