Songfacts®:

• This was released as a double a-sided single on December 19, 2011 along with "Staircase." Both previously unreleased songs were taken from Radiohead's The King of Limbs - From the Basement concert which was aired online and on a number of channels internationally, but not in the UK. It was later released as a live video album on the same day as the single release.
• The song features a brass section arranged by Radiohead multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood. As well as penning the soundtracks for such films as There Will Be Blood and Norwegian Wood, Greenwood also serves as "composer-in-residence" for the BBC Concert Orchestra.
• In an interview on BBC Radio 1, guitarist Ed O'Brien explained that this song had been "kicking around for at least six years." When Radiohead decided to perform it for the Live From the Basement concert, a final arrangement "came together within a week."
• The Daily Mail is a British middle-market tabloid newspaper, which is a bête noire amongst left-wing circles due to its conservative editorial stance and its stories that are apparently intended to induce moral panic amongst its readers. The Beatles described working for The Daily Mail as "a steady job" in "Paperback Writer."
• During their October 8, 2012 show at London's O2 Arena, frontman Thom Yorke took an onstage potshot at the Daily Mail. Introducing this song, he jokingly told the crowd that the journal was a "quality newspaper" before being forced to stop the song and start again as he was chuckling so much.