TKOL RMX 1234567

Unlike previous albums and compilations, The King Of Limbs was the Radiohead album that best lent itself to remixing, which led the band to announce a series of remixes for their 8th LP.

In an interview with BBC 6 Music, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke talked about how he and the band envisioned the remix album:

I was really curious to see how the people I was listening to so much would use what we gave them. I didn’t just want floor fillers and all that shit, I just wanted to see how the songs could really branch out and mutate.

TKOL RMX 1234567 was released to mixed reviews. The general consensus among the favourable reviews was that the group of producers mixing the tracks managed to innovate and excite in ways the band couldn’t with the original release. Other reviews, such as the one from The Guardian, weren’t so lenient:

[It] feels less like an album than an info dump.