The musician reunites with producer Nigel Godrich for his second solo album, his first since 2006, that's available for $6 on the file-sharing site.
- Sep 27, 2014
AceShowbiz - Thom Yorke is the latest musician to drop a surprise album, following in the footsteps of Beyonce Knowles and most recently U2. The Radiohead frontman quietly released "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes", his second solo album and his first in eight years, on Friday, September 26.
The album is digitally available for $6 as a BitTorrent Bundle, a new distribution strategy in which artists will get 90|percent| from the sales of their albums. BitTorrent has published a step-by-step guide to help fans access Yorke's new LP.
"Tomorrow's Modern Boxes" features eight tracks including lead single "A Brain in a Bottle" that comes with its music video. For the follow-up to 2006's "The Eraser", Yorke reunited with longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich whom he also works together as Atoms for Peace.
"It's an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around," Yorke and Gorich said of the project in a statement. "If it works well, it could be an effective way of handing some control of Internet commerce back to people who are creating the work, enabling those people who make either music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves [and] bypassing the self-elected gatekeepers."
"If it works, anyone can do this exactly as we have done," they continued. "The torrent mechanism does not require any server uploading or hosting costs or 'cloud' malarkey. It's a self-contained embeddable shop front. The network not only carries the traffic, it also hosts the file. The file is in the network."
