page_title: Amnesiac (album)
section_title: Recording
hierarchical_section_title: Amnesiac (album) / Recording
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Humphrey Lyttelton on his en:trumpet at the Landmark Arts Centre, Ferry Road, Teddington, Middx. TW11 9NN on 2006 April 22 at 21·49. Photo taken by Mark Barker.
context_page_description: Amnesiac is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released in June 2001 by Parlophone. It was recorded with producer Nigel Godrich in the same sessions as Radiohead's previous album Kid A; Radiohead released the work across two albums as they felt it would be too dense for a double album. As with Kid A, Amnesiac incorporates similar influences of electronic music, 20th-century classical music, jazz and krautrock. The final track, "Life in a Glasshouse", is a collaboration with the Humphrey Lyttelton Band.
  After having released no singles for Kid A, Radiohead promoted Amnesiac with the singles "Pyramid Song" and "Knives Out", accompanied by music videos. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and number two on the US Billboard 200. By October 2008, it had sold over 900,000 copies worldwide. It is certified platinum in Canada and the US.
  Though it disappointed some hoping for a return to Radiohead's earlier rock sound, Amnesiac received mainly positive reviews and was named one of the year's best albums by numerous publications. It was nominated for the Mercury Prize and several Grammy Awards, winning for Best Recording Package for the special edition.
context_section_description: Radiohead and producer Nigel Godrich recorded Amnesiac during the same sessions as its predecessor, Kid A, released in October 2000. The sessions took place from January 1999 to mid-2000 in Paris, Copenhagen, and in Radiohead's Oxfordshire studio. Drummer Philip Selway said the sessions had "two frames of mind ... a tension between our old approach of all being in a room playing together and the other extreme of manufacturing music in the studio. I think Amnesiac comes out stronger in the band-arrangement way."
  The sessions saw influences from electronic music, 20th-century classical music, jazz and krautrock, using synthesisers, ondes Martenot, drum machines, strings and brass. The strings, arranged by guitarist Jonny Greenwood, were performed by the Orchestra of St John's and recorded in Dorchester Abbey, a 12th-century church close to Radiohead's studio.
  Radiohead considered releasing the work as a double album, but fell it was too dense. Singer Thom Yorke said Radiohead split it into two albums because "they cancel each other out as overall finished things. They come from two different places, I think ... In some weird way I think Amnesiac gives another take on Kid A, a form of explanation." The band stressed that they saw Amnesiac not as a collection of B-sides or Kid A outtakes but an album in its own right.
caption: Jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton pictured in 2006. He and his band performed on "Life in a Glasshouse".
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