Thom Yorke Releases New Solo Album Via BitTorrent
Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Photo: Ros O'Gorman

Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Photo: Ros O'Gorman

Thom Yorke Releases New Solo Album Via BitTorrent

by Paul Cashmere on September 27, 2014

in New Music,News,Noise Pro

Thom Yorke has explained his mystery tweets this week by releasing a new solo album ‘Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes’ exclusively through BitTorrent.

BitTorrent is traditionally the platform to pirate content. Yorke is giving away his new solo album ‘Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes’ using the peer-to-peer technology.

Yorke tweeted the availability of the record posting “I am trying something new, don’t know how it will go but here it is ☺”

And the mystery of the white vinyl record has also been explained. “…and for the white vinyl go ‘ere…”

Yorke is the third major act to give away music is the past two weeks. U2 made the biggest news when they spammed 500 million Apple users whether they wanted the album or not. Earlier this week Apple offered a much more low key free EP from The Beatles, featuring a solo song from each of the four members of the band.

Yorke’s BitTorrent delivery is less conventional and bound to spark criticism because of the pirate platform he has chosen to use.

Thom Yorke produced ‘Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes’ with long time producer Nigel Godich. Yorke alludes to be rebelling with the music industry when he says the album is out “Bypassing the self elected gate-keepers”.

In a statement Yorke and Godich announced:

As an experiment we are using a new version of BitTorrent to distribute a new Thom Yorke record.

The new Torrent files have a pay gate to access a bundle of files..
The files can be anything, but in this case is an ‘album’.

It’s an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around …

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.

Bypassing the self elected gate-keepers.

If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.

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.

Oh yes and it’s called

Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes.

Thom Yorke & Nigel Godrich

Download you free Thom Yorke ‘Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes’ here.
Link:
https://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/tomorrowsmodernboxes

Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes

A Brain In A Bottle
Guess Again
Interference
The Mother Lode
Truth Ray
There Is No Ice (For My Drink)
Pink Section
Nose Grows Some

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