Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
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| Studio album by Thom Yorke | ||||
| Released | 26 September 2014 | |||
| Genre | Electronic | |||
| Length | 38:13 | |||
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| Producer | Nigel Godrich | |||
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| Metacritic | 72/100 |
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| AllMusic |    |
| The A.V. Club | B− |
| Consequence of Sound | C+ |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| Exclaim! | 7/10 |
| The Guardian | |
| NME | 7/10 |
| Pitchfork | 6.3/10 |
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Tomorrow's Modern Boxes is the second solo album by Thom Yorke of the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on 26 September 2014. It was produced by Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, with artwork by Radiohead artist Stanley Donwood. The album blends Yorke's vocals and piano playing with electronic beats and textures.
Yorke released Tomorrow's Modern Boxes independently via a paid-for BitTorrent bundle. He and Godrich expressed their wish to find "an effective way of handing some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work". The album was downloaded over a million times within six days of release, and became the most-downloaded legal torrent of 2014; by February 2015, it had been downloaded over 4.5 million times.
A vinyl edition was also sold from the official site, and in August 2015 a CD edition was released in Japan by Hostess Entertainment. On 26 December 2014, Yorke released Tomorrow's Modern Boxes on the online music shop Bandcamp alongside a new song, "Youwouldn'tlikemewhenI'mangry". The album received generally positive reviews and Rolling Stone named it one of the best of 2014.
In 2007, Radiohead released their album In Rainbows independently as a pay-what-you-want download.Matt Mason, chief content officer at BitTorrent Inc, felt the release was the "gold standard for how to do something direct-to-fan on the internet", and began talks with Radiohead's managers about the future of online music distribution.
In 2013, Radiohead singer Yorke and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich expressed concern about how the internet has affected the music business, and accused the music streaming service Spotify of not compensating new artists fairly. Godrich stated: "[Streaming] cannot work as a way of supporting new artists' work. Spotify and the like either have to address that fact and change the model for new releases or else all new music producers should be bold and vote with their feet." Mason told The Guardian that Tomorrow's Modern Boxes was "born out of these conversations we had on how the internet should work for artists: the vision we both share, which is that at present we don't have a sustainable business model for artists on the internet."
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