Supercollider / The Butcher

"Supercollider" / "The Butcher"
Single by Radiohead
Released 16 April 2011
Format 12", digital download
Recorded 2009-2011
Genre Electronica, alternative rock, art rock
Length 7:02 ("Supercollider")
4:35 ("The Butcher")
Label Ticker Tape Ltd.
Producer(s) Radiohead, Nigel Godrich
Radiohead singles chronology
"These Are My Twisted Words"
(2009)
"Supercollider" / "The Butcher"
(2011)
"The Daily Mail" / "Staircase"
(2011)

"Supercollider"/"The Butcher" is a single by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. It was released on 12-inch vinyl in the UK, Europe and Japan on 16 April 2011 for Record Store Day.[1][2] It was released on the same format in the United States and Canada on 14 June 2011. Digital masters of the tracks were released in WAV and MP3 on 18 April 2011 through the King of Limbs website to those who ordered the album in any format before the single was released.

"The Butcher" was recorded and mixed during The King of Limbs sessions, but the band "couldn't make it work with the rest of the album". "Supercollider" was debuted as a solo Thom Yorke performance on 6 June 2008 at Malahide Castle, Dublin;[3] studio work on the track was started during the King of Limbs sessions and finished in March 2011.[4]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Supercollider"   7:02
2. "The Butcher"   4:35
Total length:
11:37

Charts

Chart (2011) Peak
position
scope="row" Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[5] 19

References

  1. "Record Store Day - Exclusive Product". Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  2. Adriaan Pels (13 April 2011). "Radiohead’s Record Store Day release for UK, Europe and Japan only". ateaseweb.com. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  3. Listen to new Radiohead song online now | News | NME.COM
  4. Email sent out by the band upon release.
  5. "Radiohead: Supercollider / The Butcher" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 6 June 2013.

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