Rescued from defunct formats, prised from dark cupboards and brought to light after two decades in cold storage⦠OK COMPUTER: the original twelve track album, three unreleased tracks and eight B-sides, all newly remastered from the original analogue tapes*.
Inside a black box emblazoned with a dark image of a burned copy of OK COMPUTER are three heavyweight 180 gram black 12" vinyl records and a hardcover book containing more than 30 artworks, many of which have never been seen before except by us, and full lyrics to all the tracks except the ones that haven't really got any lyrics.
Under this weighty tome are yet more surprises: a notebook containing 104 pages from Thom Yorke's library of scrawled notes of the time, a sketchbook containing 48 pages of Donwood and Tchock's 'preparatory work' and a C90 cassette mix tape compiled by us, taken from OK COMPUTER session archives and demo tapes.
To avoid accusations of wilful obscurity, a 320k MP3, 16- or 24-bit WAV download of 23 tracks will be available to you on 23rd June and a download of the cassette will be inside the box. This edition is currently only available from this site and will ship to you from July.
* But why? The original analogue tapes are the highest definition version of the record, and nothing will ever beat them. However in the 20 years since the original release mastering technology has improved a lot, and with new equipment and techniques we can make a digital version that's an improvement of the original transfer.
The_Ghostly_Void on May 2nd, 2017 at 14:47 UTC »
Album tour would be amazing, but not holding my breath.
This is really awesome way to do a re-issue, with unreleased tracks and remastered from the analog tapes, I think I'll have to grab the vinyl.
Also speaking of vinyl, why doesn't everyone include a god damn download code? I know Radiohead is including it here* but in my ventures into buying vinyls, it feels really hit or miss if you will get a download code. Dumb not to include it, in my opinion, I already own the album just give another way to listen to it without ripping my own vinyl.
lordlollygag on May 2nd, 2017 at 14:38 UTC »
Really hope they tour OK Computer in the states. Probably won't be able to get tickets but even having the chance would be nice.
YEMyself on May 2nd, 2017 at 14:36 UTC »
Remastered originals, never-released tracks, and excerpts from Thom's notebook? Yes, please, and thank you.