Thom Yorke has shared a new song, entitled ‘You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry’.
Click below to listen to the track, via Stereogum. The song accompanies the Boxing Day Bandcamp release of his second solo album ‘Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes’, which initially came out on filesharing service BitTorrent earlier in 2014
The Radiohead frontman was the most legally downloaded artist on BitTorrent in 2014. Over 116,000 people downloaded the free portion of the LP release – single ‘A Brain In A Bottle’ and its accompanying video – in the first 24 hours of it being available. Downloaders then had the option to pay £3.86 to get the rest of the album.
Yorke described the album as “an experiment” on its release. In a press release co-authored with producer Nigel Godrich, he said: “As an experiment we are using a new version of BitTorrent to distribute a new Thom Yorke record. The new Torrent files have a pay gate to access a bundle of files. The files can be anything, but in this case is an ‘album’. It’s an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around.”
“If it works well it could be an effective way of handing some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work.”
