Radiohead fans are jumping of joy right now. First they got this ‘Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes’ surprise from Thom Yorke a few days ago, then there is apparently a new Radiohead album in the work, which is already too much they can digest at once… but there is also a new song, an almost new Radiohead song, that fans can hear right now, as the new Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie, ‘Inherent Vice’, features an unreleased song of the famous band, according to Slate magazine.
Journalists who attended the New York screening on Saturday, could listen to ‘Spooks’, an instrumental, showing up in the credits at the end of the movie, and being described as a number with ‘surf-rock guitar’ which ‘makes it a good fit for the 1970-set ‘Inherent Vice’, which includes a surf-rock saxophonist (played by Owen Wilson) as a main character.’
Nevertheless, this is not exactly a brand new song as the band played it in concert during some gigs in 2006, and footages have resurfaced on YouTube… according to this recording, the song first sounds like a Dick Dale meets the Cramps tune, it’s all surf guitars then it stops abruptly after only a minute of it… I wanted more but is that a real song?
However, according to someone who saw the movie and is a big Radiohead fan (yeah, I go to this At Ease message board where Radiohead’s überfans speak in code) the song is very different in the movie: ‘Spooks is very very different here. Slow and piano based. Not surf rock at all. I almost didn’t recognize it. But it’s nice.’ Anyway, I have always thought that Jonny Greenwood was Radiohead’s central musician, without him, Thom Yorke is just a voice with a laptop… But according to the credits, it is performed by Greenwood, Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey, from the band Supergrass, so not by the Radiohead crew… at least, we are all intrigued.
