Thom Yorke blasts music ‘retards’

Posted on April 4th, 2006.

Thom Yorke has launched a scathing attack on record companies and radio stations as he believes they are only just now looking at the internet for new talent.

Speaking about Arctic Monkeys’ rise to fame, Yorke said: “A good thing for new music would be more of the mainstream loosening up a bit and letting stuff through. Radio 1 won’t play anything fucking decent. You need to sort the radio out.”

He added: “The fact that poor Arctic Monkeys are getting so much attention is purely based on the fact that the mainstream music business is such a bunch of fucking retards as far as I’m concerned.”

His latest comments come in an interview with NME as Radiohead record their seventh album.

Yorke says the music will not be a political ‘war cry’ but a ‘terrifying’ vision of urban and suburban life. He added: ‘It’s about that anonymous fear thing, sitting in traffic thinking, “I’m sure I’m supposed to be doing something else.”‘

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