Its new sound divided listeners, and some dismissed it as pretentious, deliberately obscure, or derivative. Kid A debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and became Radiohead's first number-one album on the Billboard 200 in the US, where it sold more than 207,000 copies in its first week.
In 2000, Radiohead toured Europe in a custom-built tent without corporate logos. Bootlegs of early performances were shared on filesharing services, and Kid A was leaked before release. Instead, they released short animated " blips", and became one of the first major acts to use the internet for promotion. In a departure from industry practice, Radiohead released no singles or music videos and conducted few interviews and photoshoots. Yorke wrote impersonal and abstract lyrics, cutting up phrases and assembling them at random. They processed guitar sounds, incorporated samples and loops, and manipulated their recordings with software. Drawing influence from electronic music, ambient music, krautrock, jazz and 20th-century classical music, Radiohead used instruments such as modular synthesisers, the ondes Martenot, brass and strings. It was recorded with their producer, Nigel Godrich, in Paris, Copenhagen, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.Īfter the stress of promoting Radiohead's 1997 album OK Computer, the songwriter, Thom Yorke, wanted to depart from rock music. Kid A is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 2 October 2000 by Parlophone.
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