Radiohead

Hail To The Thief

2x Vinyl 12" 45 RPM Album Reissue

Release date: Dec 31, 2021, Europe

𝙍𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙤𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙’𝙨 “𝙃𝙖𝙞𝙡 𝙏𝙤 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛” 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙧𝙖𝙬, 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡 — 𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙤𝙪𝙨, 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙞𝙙, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚.

Released in the shadow of global unrest, the album channels anxiety into restless song forms that oscillate between rock aggression, electronic unease and brittle minimalism. Guitars slash and sputter, rhythms lurch unpredictably, and Thom Yorke’s voice shifts from intimate confession to panicked broadcast, often within the same track.
Rather than the icy precision of earlier work, “Hail To The Thief” thrives on tension and overload. Songs feel deliberately crowded, ideas colliding and overlapping as if mirroring the information noise and moral confusion of the era. Moments of stark beauty surface amid the chaos, but they are never allowed to settle comfortably.

Messy by design and emotionally direct, the record stands as one of Radiohead’s most confrontational statements — a document of unease that trades polish for urgency, and control for something closer to truth.

2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm.)

Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.)

Sail To The Moon. (Brush The Cobwebs Out Of The Sky.)

Backdrifts. (Honeymoon Is Over.)

Go To Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.)

Where I End And You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.)

We Suck Young Blood. (Your Time Is Up.)

The Gloaming. (Softly Open Our Mouths In The Cold.)

There There. (The Boney King Of Nowhere.)

I Will. (No Man's Land.)

A Punchup At A Wedding. (No No No No No No No No.)

Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury & Executioner.)