Radiohead announces new 'Hail to the Thief' live album

‘Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009’ out digitally today & physically Friday, Oct. 31
√ Watch a live version of ‘There, There’ from Buenos Aires here

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Radiohead announced “Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009,” a new live album that allowed the band to reevaluate its relationship with its sixth studio album, “Hail To The Thief.” The band have also shared a live video performance of “There, There” from Buenos Aires, taken from the album – watch here.

Out now digitally, and available to preorder as a one-off pressing, released on Oct. 31, the album comprises performances of songs in London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires and Dublin between 2003-09. The album was mixed by Ben Baptie and mastered by Matt Colton.

Speaking about the new live album, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke said, “In the process of thinking of how to build arrangements for the Shakespeare ‘Hamlet/Hail To The Thief’ theater production, I asked to hear some archive live recordings of the songs. I was shocked by the kind of energy behind the way we played. I barely recognized us, and it helped me find a way forward. We decided to get these live recordings mixed and released (it would have been insane to keep them for ourselves). It has all been a very cathartic process. We very much hope you enjoy them.”

The one-off vinyl pressing is also available in a limited-edition red colorway from independent stores; and on cyan-colored vinyl, exclusively from Radiohead’s W.A.S.T.E. store.

Yorke recently co-created the critically acclaimed “Hamlet/Hail to the Thief,” a frenetic adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” set to a deconstructed score of reworked songs from 2003’s “Hail to the Thief.” Rolling Stone UK said of the new production, “The biggest testament to Yorke and his co-writers that these worlds collide so seamlessly, as if they were always meant to be together.”