The Hollow Earth

Album: Single Release Only (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • This was released as a double-A sided solo single by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke along with "FeelingPulledApartbyHorses."
  • Yorke explained on Radiohead's online blog Dead Air Space that this is a "bass menace that was born out of the [2006 solo album] The Eraser period, but needed a little more time."
  • Radiohead's longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich produced this track.
  • The song's music video, which was directed by media artist and experimental filmmaker Raymond Salvatore Harmon, utilizes imagery by quasi-anonymous graffiti artist Banksy superimposed over various time lapse shots of London city life.

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