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FeelingPulledApartByHorses / TheHollowEarth
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Wikipedia article
"'FeelingPulledApartByHorses'" and "'TheHollowEarth'" are songs by Thom Yorke of the English alternative rock band Radiohead, produced by longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich. They were self-released as a double A-side 12-inch single on 21 September 2009 and as a download on 6 October 2009. The vinyl was limited to 8000 copies worldwide.
"FeelingPulledApartByHorses" began as a Radiohead song, first performed in 2001. "TheHollowEarth" came from the recording sessions for Yorke's solo album 'The Eraser' (2006)'.'
Background and recording
Yorke's band Radiohead performed an early version of "FeelingPulledApartByHorses", then titled "Reckoner", in 2001. Yorke likened it to heavy metal; 'Pitchfork' described it as a "droning rocker", and 'Rolling Stone' wrote that it featured "one of the loudest and most sinister riffs in Radiohead's catalog". In 2005, Yorke performed the song solo on acoustic guitar at a Trade Justice Movement show.
Working on the song for their 2007 album 'In Rainbows', Radiohead added a coda that developed into a different song, but kept the "Reckoner" title. Yorke and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood reworked the original song as "FeelingPulledApartByHorses", omitting the chorus and adding bass guitar, "glitchy" drums, "disembodied" vocals, and an extended synthesiser coda. 'Rolling Stone' described it as "more subdued and textural", in the style of Yorke's 2006 solo album 'The Eraser'. Yorke and Greenwood performed "FeelingPulledApartByHorses" with their band the Smile on tour in 2022. Yorke described "TheHollowEarth" as a "bass menace" that came from the recording sessions for 'The Eraser.'
Reception
'Pitchfork' gave "FeelingPulledApartByHorses" a positive review, writing: "Quartering, in medieval times, meant being pulled apart by horses; Yorke's skillful production here re-imagines that punishment as a disorienting pleasure."
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