FeelingPulledApartByHorses / TheHollowEarth
"FeelingPulledApartByHorses" and "TheHollowEarth" are songs by Thom Yorke, produced by Nigel Godrich. They were released as a limited double A-side vinyl in September 2009, and as a download on 6 October 2009.
Yorke's band Radiohead first performed "FeelingPulledApartByHorses" in 2001. Yorke later performed it solo, and with his bands Atoms for Peace and the Smile. Yorke began "TheHollowEarth" during the sessions for his album The Eraser ''.''
Writing and recording
Yorke's band Radiohead performed an early version of "FeelingPulledApartByHorses", then titled "Reckoner", in 2001. Yorke likened it to heavy metal. Pitchfork described it as a "droning rocker", and Rolling Stone said it featured "one of the loudest and most sinister riffs in Radiohead's catalog". In 2005, Yorke performed the song on acoustic guitar at a Trade Justice Movement show.Working on the song for their 2007 album In Rainbows, Radiohead added a coda that developed into a different song with the original title, "Reckoner". Afterwards, Yorke and the Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood reworked the original song. They omitted the chorus and added bass guitar, "glitchy" drums, "disembodied" vocals, and an extended synthesiser coda. Rolling Stone described it as "more subdued and textural", in the style of Yorke's 2006 album The Eraser. Yorke described "TheHollowEarth" as a "bass menace" that began during the recording sessions for ''The Eraser.''