New Radiohead tracks The Butcher & Supercollider leaked

by on April 15, 2011 with 88 Comments in Radiohead News

Alright, it’s a matter of time till we get our hands on some high quality recordings of the two new Radiohead tracks that are out tomorrow. They’re not here yet, but getting closer.

The other day we posted some clips of someone playing the vinyl of The Butcher & Supercollider from the Record Store Day release. It will be in stores tomorrow and hopefully it will be digitally available soon. The tracks have leaked in full now.


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  • http://www.fakeplastictunes.com/ Fake Plastic Tunes

    Yeah it is hard to be patient to hear a good quality version of the songs but hey I will take what I can get for now.

    Tomorrow we should have some great quality versions of the songs…..can’t wait.

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  • KingPete

    Love Supercollider!

  • igor

    Radiohead used to give each song a different arrangement. Now it looks like they are trying to fit each song in a looping drums model. The new songs are more like followers of the eraser than followers of in rainbows. It is interesting, but it was better when the band and thom solo were giving us different things.

  • Josh

    Resisting the urge to listen to these till the higher quality versions appear…so…tempting…

  • NO MORE MONEY OUT OF MY POCKET SAYS

    I paid $48 dollars for 8 songs!!!
    Now they want more money for 2?!
    BULLSHIT!!!
    I’m “stealing” these songs and 2 more albums after.
    NO MORE MONEY OUT OF MY POCKET!!!!
    Radiohead, YOU FUCKED UP!!!

  • http://www.moteldemoka.com/ Moka

    More of mood explorations than actual songs, imho, but wasn’t really expecting anything else.

    Supercollider doesn’t really seem to go anywhere to justify six minutes of length but the mood explored sounds promising enough. Hard to tell what’s hidden underneath”the butcher” since the drums sound too high in the mix. I guess there’s the usual little gems hidden in the production of both songs to look forward to, that can’t really be appreciated in these rips.

    Still overall dissapointed that these all sound more like The Eraser 2 than as an actual Radiohead record, specially after the tight band dynamics they seemed to had going for them on In Rainbows.

  • Jon Lovitz

    Well what the fuck… if these 2 tracks would have been on TKoL it would have been a proper 10 track album!? I don’t get it

  • Silas

    Is Phil even in the band anymore?

  • Tomlin

    Meh.

  • meh

    ghey

  • Carl

    Thanks for posting these. High/low quality or not, you’ve saved me wasting my time scouring Record Store Day aproved shops tomorrow morning to buy yet another substandard Radiohead release.

    Welcome to Radiohead 2011. The most boring Mainstream Electronica band on earth. All member’s contributions obliterated to sound like a Thom Yorke solo release.

    Can we all stop pretending it’s 2000 & listen to some other bands who actually embody what it means to be interesting, original & vital?

    Please let the sheep put their answers on a postcard & send them to w.a.s.t.s.e………

  • Rxan

    I like how he sounds like a little kid. Maybe because the low quality though?

  • http://tpop tpop

    “is phil even in the band anymore?” this is probably the most drum driven album theyve ever had. just because the drums are the foundation of the songs doesnt mean that phils involvement has been diluted at all. in fact, it probably shows how much more radiohead relies on him because i can bet hes the one coming up with these drum tracks. study up silas.

  • http://www.moteldemoka.com/ Moka

    Yeah this whole batch of songs are pretty much Colin and Phil working their magic. It’s a very strong backbone but still lacks the flesh and muscle of their past efforts. Too much time in the studio and not enough with actual instruments.

  • Neto

    You guys should listen to the Sir Douglas Quintet, Doug Sahm and Freddy Fender, those guys freaking rock!!

  • mark

    supercollider > the butcher

  • Tyler

    Why are people complaining about the new direction of the band?

    You’re asking one of the most musically innovative and experimental bands of all time to keep doing the same thing over and over, how hypocritical is that?

  • http://www.moteldemoka.com/ Moka

    No, Tyler. We’re actually asking them to remain innovative and experimental. This we’ve heard before.

  • Silas

    tpop…..don’t tell me your “theory” and tell me to study up. I know quite a few drummers, and I’m pretty sure they would rather drum it themselves as opposed to getting a machine to do it for them. This has “Thom’s fascination with electronica” written all over it, and it seems like it’s up to the band to figure out how they are going to do it live. Out of the original 8 tracks, there are only 3 I can point to and say that’s a live set.

    I know he’ll end up playing them live, but it doesn’t sound as if he’s really all that involved in the recording process.

  • Michael

    I for one like the butcher.. It’s cool. Dont expect too much out of these people, they’re not Gods.

  • im a faggot

    jesus everyone seems to bitching about these songs. both tracks sound great. keep it up radiohead.

  • IntheBellyofaWhale

    Please don’t judge these songs based on these low quality recordings. It’s not how the band intended them to be heard. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but patience, people. I’m sure there’s a lot more going on that we can’t hear, and what we can, doesn’t actually sound how we’re hearing it.

  • Josh

    @Silas: I’m pretty sure all of Radiohead are interested in Electronic music, not just Thom. They’ve said before they were sick of guitars, Johnny obviously doesn’t write the same type of music he used to, even the guitar on These are my Twisted Words is quite electronic. And they’ve been moving toward electronic stuff as a band since Kid A. Phil is taking a new style with his drumming, Colin is being more adventurous and focused, song-wise, with the bass, Thom certainly has a huge influence on the songs as always, and Ed and Johnny sound completley different, very subdued guitar bits or more electronic stuff. I think it sounds very different from previous records and it is definitely a different ‘group’ sound then from In Rainbows or other previous efforts. It’s hardly fair to say TKOL is the Eraser II when you bear all that in mind. Thom’s solo efforts are most definitely ‘solo’, just listen and it’s easy to tell it’s him. To say that Thom doesn’t use elements of his side project in this record would be absurd, but only as much as Johnny uses his classical training, which I think is a great use of their talents, broadening their musical outputs in the record. Sorry for the wall of text, hope that made sense.

  • cortex

    Radiohead puts more soul into their records than other electronics artist do. I like FourTet or others, but in comparison to Radiohead they are quite unemotional. Beside Radiohead/Thom Yorke only Björk connects electrionc music with such a large amount of emotions.

  • Neto

    So what do you guys think about Freddy Fender and Doug Sahm?

  • lifeistao

    @ Cortex

    Yes!!!! You nailed it! I’ve saying this all along…….. ;-)

  • trkrktkkkkkprrrrrkt

    I didn’t like Supercollider when I heard it on YouTube several years ago, and I don’t like it much now either. By Radiohead’s standards it’s pretty weak.

    The other song, The Butcher, sounds a lot better and I’ll definitely track down a decent MP3 of it I think.

  • Flanela

    I’ll end up liking these songs, but they are certainly worse than what’s on TKOL. I’m glad about the choice they’ve made letting the album contain only 8 songs.

    Btw, I really hope Radiohead comes up with better stuff for a new album. Their songs are normally EPIC, which is not what we saw with TKOL.

  • http://yanksdg1 greg

    I rather listen to Pablo Honey than the king of limbs

  • WozzA

    It staggers me how people still just hear electronica in TKoL. They have clearly got into minimal and dubstep and then filter their inherent Radioheadness thru it.

    3 of the 8 tracks are pretty dominantly electronica (Bloom, Feral, Lotus Flower), but of these only Feral is purely electronica (and blatantly Burial). Bloom has an orchestral swell and there are only ever simultaneously five sounds in Lotus Flowers; drums, bass, vocal, hand claps and an electronic melody.

    Both Good Morning Mr Magpie and Little By Little are performed primarily on multiple guitars, they’ve just been produced as minimal so they sound different. LbL in particular is very light on electronic instrumentation. Codex is a sparse piano ballad and Give Up The Ghost layered vocals and a guitar line. And while Separator starts out electronic it becomes a gentle guitar track.

    Personally I don’t mind if others don’t like the album; everyone has their own opinion. I’m not trying to suggest you’re wrong for not liking it; just confused that people can only hear the production and miss the instrumentation.

    P.S. It’s not the Eraser 2 as nothing on The Eraser had half as good basslines or drum beats with such odd time signatures or the same level of depth of sound.

  • Beefcake

    Never carred too much for Super Collider, but it’s okay nether less nothing wrong with it.

    I really love the butcher though, it’s the only thing sounding different then most of the stuff we have been hearing coming out from them. Sounds like a amped up track off of amnesiac.

  • strangehouse.bandcamp.com

    Supercollider’s pretty bitchin imo. Would have been a good closer to TKOL…

  • felipehoney

    why waste such a beautiful piano riff on supercollider in the studio version is beyond me, im glad i have my high quality live recording of this track that i will listen to more often now that i heard this dissapointing studio version

  • kassad

    I guess this completes the King of Limbs album.

  • http://deleted The Beatles

    Did you guys forget us? John could have made up TKOL while humming in his sleep. How many albums did we put out in 8 years and they were all models of perfection?

  • Zachtree

    The band on vaca with thom left alone in the studio….. snoooooooze!!

    As much as I hate to say it… they probably should have just pulled a “White Stripes” to preserve what the band was… This is just silly.

  • Letdown and Hanging Around

    Not liking these latest songs at all or The King of Limbs. Sad to say I’m dissapointed in what Radiohead have become of late – a band running out of ideas and becoming a stale sounding electronica outfit.

  • iNGRAINED

    Have to agree, just another couple of sub-standard songs by a great band on the wane. I dont feel much from The Kings of Limbs, it bores me as much as i hate to say it.
    Where`s the fucking passion and emotion shown on Kid A, Amnesiac and HTTT……

  • lifeistao

    Ohhh…… My head is spinning like a plate by Rh’s marketing….. Errrrr…..

  • Ace

    these songs are awesome. addictive. can’t wait for the high quality.

    I thought kings of limbs was easer v.2 on the first listen. It took a few listens for me to hear the whole band.

    I’m sure the whole band is in these songs too. But need a good version and a pair of headphone to hear the song completely.

    TKOL is finally complete:)

  • Hi, and how are you today?

    The King of Limbs was not really what I was expecting. That is pretty much the story of all their albums. If you go in expecting In Rainbows II you will be sorely disappointed. Videotape, Reckoner, and All I Need will remain with my favorites Radiohead has released. It is time to move on. History will prove their methods right or wrong. One thing history does give is context.

    I remember when Kid A was released and how much backlash I saw from the OK Computer crowd. Kid A is considered one of their greatest albums nowadays. Some people still hold on to the era before Kid A. Some expected more complex melodies and guitar parts than before. See the music for what it is, not what it isn’t. If you still don’t like it, then that is your preference. We all have our own thoughts and individual freedom for a reason.

  • Costa Rica

    Hi, and how are you today? Fine thanks! I dont know who you are but you nailed it. Thanks for bringing some common sense to our lives today.

  • lifeistao

    @iNGRAINED,

    TKoL does not focus purely on passion & emotion, more about NOT to struggle & fight our inner self or with outer force.

    Human eventually gain wisdom & choose not to fight certain battles if not necessary or futile.

  • david

    Download the bloody songs for free

    http://www.megaupload.com/?d=25CH9062

    HQ

  • Anomalous

    crybabies

  • Janusz

    I just listened to the songs in hq and have to say that both are amazing. The butcher blew my mind. Just a little sad that they are not on TKOL, both would be highlights. I’m gonna burn them onto a cd though with the rest of TKOL and have it my way!

  • Adam

    Ummm…does anyone ELSE think Butcher should have been on TKOL over Magpie?

  • Tony G
  • mephistophilis

    @david
    cheers geez
    couldnt find HQ rips anywhere

  • Costa Rica

    Just listened to both songs HQ, loved them specially The butcher, which reminds me how good Radiohead can be, and have to admit, it made me realize the passion KOL is missing. Kind of still hoping KOL (8 tracks) is like a B-sides for the real newspaper album or something, otherwise i think they ruined KOL for me with The Butcher.

  • Hugo Schmidt

    I have te 12″!! Yeah!

  • Thom + Burial

    The end of The Butcher is fantastic!!

  • Radiohead fan in 1990

    I really love Happy song and Sinking Ship. Ace tracks!
    those saxophones really put the groove on!

  • Jack Banksia

    I’m a huge Radiohead fan, following them since Ok Computer and accessing very often the atease forum, but unfortunately I must say that TKOL is already been put aside, I’ll probably dust it off in a few months, but now I’d rather listen to something else…

    With Supercollider they have done the same thing they did with Videotape: destroying the essence of the track. I still hope that the live version will be better than the recorded one.
    F**k!!

  • anon

    Supercollider sounds like backdrifts.

  • @Jack Banksia

    Interesting point about them destroying the essence of Videotape.

    I kind of agree that this deconstructivist approach of Thom’s whereby all melody is all but wiped out in favour of circling endlessly repeating rhythm is nullifying a lot of what people really like about Radiohead.

    The live version of Lotus Flower compared to the final version is a case in point: it had a lot of the warmth stripped from it in my opinion.

    Anyway, someone else can come on now and use words like “entitled” at people like me. ;)

  • kassad84

    @david thanks!

    ACE songs!

  • _john_

    ‘Is Phil even in the band any more’?
    Well…he has his own album, so I’m sure he left & is off to a glorious solo career…

    Just because TKOL is mainly electronic in nature & full of “beats” instead of traditional “drums”, doesn’t mean the otherwise traditional drummer didn’t create them. Drum machines aren’t necessarily a threat to drummers. As the natural producers of rhythm, the drummers would likely produce some very interesting beats on the machines. Not to mention, Phil may even use MIDI triggers that allow him to play drums while ‘triggering’ electronic drum sounds.

    (Analogy to my own sitch…I’m a bass player, but I have nothing but love & interest in producing/playing bass lines on a sequencer/synth.)

  • Arpeggi

    people used to complain when 98-radiohead-okcomputer turned into a 2000-radiohead-kid-A, but that was before kid A become d best record of the decade. Now people do the SAME SHIT AGAIN, because they doesn’t have nothint better to do. I dont give a crap if TKOL its a theeraser-like record, cause its not, you can see that in all the songs, and its much more complex than theeraser stuff. if you didn’t like the album, thats not a problem for radiohead, cause much of the ok computer fans didn’t liked kid A untill they listen To it LIVE. stop crying, Little crying babies, if you know what I mean. ;D

  • Daniau

    loving ‘the butcher’. wicked sounds.

  • Sarah Jane

    Thanks david!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Dlaw

    Super Collider……Took 2 listens and now i’m hooked.

  • drew

    These tracks are so pedictable. Anyone listen to “Skip Divided” recently? Even if the whole band is working making electronic beats/sounds I really wonder where they went on this album. The problem is not that they’re not there–I’m sure they are–but rather that it *sounds* like they are absent. It also seems that the band’s songwriting on the whole TKOL era has lot the urgency it had on In Rainbows–those songs built ad built until you were just enveloped. These ones kind of have awkward attempts at structure, but a lot of them end up going nowhere–”Codex,” for example,which, worse still sounds like another easy “Pyramid Song” child. It may just be where I am as a Radiohead listener, but I’m ready to move on from thee songs.

  • brad

    I love the KOL as wells as these two new ones, Thank you Radiohead

  • poisoned_dwarf

    For all the people bitching that this is Thom solo, please STFU. The Butcher has an Ondes Martenot in it. That’s Jonny. It has a strong bass rhythm–Colin. Drums galore–Phil. Shut the fuck up please.

  • JB Pale

    The OK COMPUTER material made Radiohead the most interesting and best live band in the world. Much of thier more modern works DO NOT translate well live at all (compare Glastonbury 1997 with 2003- you wouldn’t think it was the same band). TKOL is frankly dreadful and wouldn’t get airplay without the “Radiohead” name.
    A shame.

  • Chris

    Get headphones these new tracks are amazing, Got a good MP3 and headphones and they will defo be ending my TKOL album. :)

  • Andrew

    It’s like when the Rolling Stones started playing disco music in an attempt to stay “current” – it was embarrassing (OK, maybe Miss You is good). This electronica stuff is not what Radiohead does best. It’s like they’re middle-aged men trying to look cool by playing with beats and loops even though it’s not what they’re really good at. Besides, why does something being “current” make it good? Fashion is sad and TKOL is sad. The emperor really has gone on a shopping spree…

  • Life On The Horizon

    What’s missing from Supercollider is Phil’s drumming.
    Even on Kid A and Amnesiac we got classic drum fills and action.

    we have no action on the last 10 tracks.

  • Sean

    @David – Thanks!

    As for the tracks, i must say that I like them both. I can see why some people are going to be disappointed with the “new direction” represented by TKOL. I respect that; however, I just made a mental adjustment a few years back. I like the band. I like what they stand for. I respect how they aren’t media whore celebs. I respect that while not perfect, they are still exploring and not just doing the same old shit to sell records. So, I just approach each RH album or release as just a separate entity. It’s like different pieces of fruit. I have some apples, oranges, and a banana. Maybe I like oranges a little better, but I try to find what is sweet in all them, and appreciate their differences because I like the band. I find if I have no expectations and just go deep into the work without expectations, I am rarely disappointed, and I am never never bored. Somedays, at work, it’s Thom’s solo stuff; sometimes it’s OK Computer; Sometimes In Rainbows. Everything in its right place…

  • Hi, and how are you today?

    @ Costa Rica: Thank you for the kind comment. Hope things are well in your area of the world.

  • kassad

    TKOL is club music

  • mjd180

    TKOL is meant to rid Radiohead and its fans of close minded ‘Bends’/'OK Computer’ fanatics, that returned for the ultra commercial IR (like the hypocrites they are). Hopefully, once the “nespaper” release has come and gone, so will they…

  • Janusz

    Is there a better sounding version of The Butcher?

  • mjd180

    As opposed to sticking around, and pathetically trying to convince the small majority of us (perhaps even the band in their delusional minds) of their minority/repetitive/incorrect viewpoint…

  • mjd180
  • fakeplasticradio

    finally have them in good quality, great songs!
    if these two songs were on TKOL, that would have been the best album they have made so far. Radiohead still alive and kicking!

  • fakeplasticradio

    I LOVE RADIOHEAD 3.0 ! :-)

  • TO THE IDIOT COMPLAINING ABOUT THE PRICE

    No, you didn’t pay 48 dollars for “just 8 songs”. Price for the album is as low as 9 bucks, if you decided to pay more that was your choice. I don’t think anybody really cares if you “steal” these 2 songs, so go ahead, but don’t act like the band owe you something.

  • lifeistao

    I like The Butcher, don’t care for Supercollider, especially the way Thom sings. I usually love his singing at times vulnerable and otherworldly. But not in Supercollider, he brings his whiny up to another level, nayyyyy……

  • Joe

    Seriously? Is anyone besides Thom even in this band anymore?

  • Levedad

    I like TKOL (this two tracks fullfill the album), but I cant see the band in there. Im telling no news when I say this could be a Thom solo album. I love RH and I am thankful to all they´ve given us, but this is the first record that I must say is a forgettable one.

  • Jimbot3000

    These songs are great. Supercollider is probably the most instantly likeable Radiohead song in years but that’s beside the point. If people aren’t evolved enough to cope with the best band ever progressing their sound (which they’ve always done) then get off the wagon and go listen to Nikelback or Creed or something generic that pleases your cool jock mates. And by the way, Thom’s voice sounds incredible on Supercollider. Face it.

  • lenkev14

    This should have been TKOL tracklist:

    Bloom
    Morning Mr Magpie
    Little By Little
    Feral
    Lotus Flower
    Codex
    Give Up The Ghost
    Seperator
    The Butcher
    Supercollider

    I find it strange they didn’t include these two songs on the album.

  • Gonzster1

    Radiohead can not be bent to meet YOUR needs! So FUCK OFF!!!!

  • Gonzster1

    Just like when Thom tells drunken loud mouths to shut the fuck up! At concerts.

  • lenkev14

    actually, i take it back, those two tracks really wouldn’t work where i suggested. apologies for my hasty righteousness……..










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