Radiohead: We're Not Fighting The Music Industry

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood has poured cold water on the idea that the band’s self released album ‘In Rainbows’ was some kind of fight against the institutions of the music industry.

While the band were busy dominating the headlines with the release yesterday Greenwood was speaking about the album and its conception.

When asked why they release it in such a way he told New York’s Gothamist: Just getting it out quickly. It was kind of an experiment as well; we were just doing it for ourselves and that was all.

“People are making a big thing about it being against the industry or trying to change things for people but it's really not what motivated us to do it.

“It's more about feeling like it was right for us and feeling bored of what we were doing before.”

And on the idea of letting people pay what they wanted for the album he added: “It's just interesting to make people pause for even a few seconds and think about what music is worth now.

“I thought it was an interesting thing to ask people to do and compare it to whatever else in their lives they value or don't value.”

Talking about the sound of the album he echoed what fans and critics have been saying by describing it as “more like earlier Kid A stuff, more based in studio experiments and trying out ideas and spending quite a long time”.