Thom Yorke - Anima (Vinyl 2LP Orange)

ANIMA is the third solo album from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, an anxious, dream-haunted electronic record released by XL Recordings in June 2019. It was produced by longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich, who also co-wrote the music with Yorke. Yorke has described it as coming out of a long stretch of anxiety, and the sound is dense and pulsing, built from glitchy beats, synths and occasional strings.

The title nods to Carl Jung’s ideas of the anima and animus, and dreams, sleepwalking and modern dread run through the songs. It was launched with typical mischief, including posters for a fictional company called ANIMA Technologies that appeared on the London Underground, and arrived alongside a 15-minute Netflix short film by Paul Thomas Anderson set to three of its tracks, also screened in select IMAX cinemas.

This indie-exclusive edition spreads the album across two 140g orange vinyl LPs in a wide-spined flipback sleeve with illustrated inners, and adds a vinyl-only bonus track, ‘(Ladies & Gentlemen, Thank You for Coming)’.

If ANIMA is your thing, go back to where his solo story began with The Eraser, hear the electronic turn on Radiohead’s Kid A, or try Tall Tales, his collaboration with Mark Pritchard.