Yorke chides 'Radiohead: The Best Of'

In the lead-up to the June release of Radiohead: The Best Of by the band’s former label EMI, vocalist Thom Yorke has voiced his inevitable disappointment. “We haven’t really had any hits,” he told The Word, “so what exactly is the purpose?”

Radiohead split from EMI before the release of their most recent album, In Rainbows, meaning the Best Of culminates with 2003’s Hail To The Thief. “There’s nothing we can do about it,” Yorke continued in the interview. “The work is really public property now anyway, in my head at least. It’s a wasted opportunity in that if we’d been behind it, and we wanted to do it, then it might have been good.”

According to the frontman, the relationship with EMI “didn’t feel right. And now it’s like when you move house: you don’t want to peer through the window and see what they’ve done with the wallpaper because it will only upset you.”