Radiohead member Jonny Greenwood connected with Chicago’s WBEZ for an exclusive interview with NPR’s Bob Boilen. In this feature, Greenwood dissects A Moon Shaped Pool tracks “Burn the Witch,” “Daydreaming,” and “Glass Eyes.”
The discussion touches on how the songs were created, influences, and the methods used for recording them. Check it out below.
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One of our favorite insights from this interview revolves around the subject of working with Radiohead leading man Thom Yorke:
It’s not really about can I do my guitar part now, it’s more … what will serve this song best? How do we not mess up this really good song? Part of the problem is Thom will sit at the piano and play a song like ‘Pyramid Song‘ and we’re going to record it and how do we not make it worse, how do we make it better than him just playing it by himself, which is already usually quite great. We’re kind of, we’re arrangers really.
