{"id":142940,"date":"2025-08-13T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142940\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:30:11","slug":"radiohead-release-new-live-album-hail-to-the-thief-live-recordings-2003-2009-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142940\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiohead Release New Live Album Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009): Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radiohead<\/a> have surprise-released an album of live recordings drawn from their 2003 album, Hail to the Thief<\/a>. Recorded between the year of its release and the end of the In Rainbows<\/a> tours in 2009, the 12-track album is newly mixed and mastered by Ben Baptie and Matt Colton, respectively. Physical editions follow on October 31. Listen to Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009)<\/a> below.<\/p>\n

In a statement explaining how the record came about, Yorke said, \u201cIn the process of thinking how to build arrangements for the Shakespeare Hamlet\/Hail to the Thief theatre 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 and it really helped me find a way forward. For us, back in the day, the finishing of this record was particularly messy and fraught, we were very proud of it but there was a taste left in our mouths, it was a dark time in so many ways. Anyway we decided to get these live recordings mixed (it would have been insane to keep them for ourselves) by Ben Baptie, who did an amazing job. It has all been a very cathartic process, we very much hope you enjoy them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though foundational for many fans, Hail to the Thief occupies a curious place in Radiohead lore, which generally holds that it is too long. Five years after its release, Thom Yorke<\/a> posted a revised tracklist on Radiohead\u2019s website omitting four songs\u2014\u201cA\u202fPunchup at a Wedding,\u201d \u201cWe Suck Young Blood,\u201d \u201cI\u202fWill\u201d and \u201cBackdrifts\u201d\u2014and Nigel Godrich later said its lack of editing, while charming, made it \u201cprobably [his] least favourite of all the albums.\u201d (All<\/a> of them?!) In 2008, the band modestly reframed a handful of Hail to the Thief tracks on the live studio recording In Rainbows From the Basement. Before that, a searing live version of \u201c2+2=5,\u201d recorded at Earl\u2019s Court, appeared on the 2004 EP Com Lag. As noted in his statement, Yorke recently adapted<\/a> Hail to the Thief for a spin on Hamlet that opened in Manchester, England, in May.<\/p>\n

The new live album marks Radiohead\u2019s first activity since forming a new business entity<\/a>\u2014a limited liability partnership (LLP)\u2014this March, etching a faint question mark beside their dormant status. Today\u2019s release does not necessarily answer the question that business entity raised: Radiohead typically form LLP entities for tours, not reissues, and, historically, the band has not toured without a new album to fine-tune or promote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radiohead have surprise-released an album of live recordings drawn from their 2003 album, Hail to the Thief. Recorded…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5157,171,975,12136,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-142940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-releases","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115022648054078414","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}