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"FeelingPulledApartByHorses"
Single by Thom Yorke
A-side"FeelingPulledApartByHorses"
B-side"TheHollowEarth"
Released21 September 2009
RecordedAugust 2009
GenreElectronica
LabelXurbia Xendless, XL Recordings
Songwriter(s)Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood
Producer(s)Nigel Godrich
Thom Yorke singles chronology
"Analyse"
(2006) 		"FeelingPulledApartByHorses" / "TheHollowEarth"
(2009) 		"Ego / Mirror"
(2011)

"FeelingPulledApartByHorses" and "TheHollowEarth" are songs by Thom Yorke of the English alternative rock band Radiohead, produced by longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich. They were self-released as a double A-side 12-inch single on 21 September 2009 and as a download on 6 October 2009.[1] The vinyl was limited to 8000 copies worldwide.[2]

"FeelingPulledApartByHorses" began as a Radiohead song, first performed in 2001. "TheHollowEarth" came from the recording sessions for Yorke's solo album The Eraser (2006).[1]

Background and recording

Radiohead performed an early version of "FeelingPulledApartByHorses", then titled "Reckoner", in 2001, which Yorke likened to heavy metal.[3] Pitchfork described this version as a "droning rocker",[4] and Rolling Stone wrote that it featured "one of the loudest and most sinister riffs in Radiohead's catalog".[5] In 2005, Yorke performed the song solo on acoustic guitar at a Trade Justice Movement show.[6]

Working on the song for their 2007 album In Rainbows, Radiohead added a coda that became a different song with the same name, "Reckoner".[7] Yorke and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood reworked the original song as "FeelingPulledApartByHorses",[1] omitting the chorus[5] and adding bass guitar, "glitchy" drums, "disembodied" vocals, and an extended synthesizer coda.[4] Rolling Stone described it as "more subdued and textural", in the style of Yorke's 2006 solo album The Eraser.[5] Yorke described "TheHollowEarth" as a "bass menace" that came from the recording sessions for The Eraser.[1]

Reception

Pitchfork gave "FeelingPulledApartByHorses" a positive review, writing: "Quartering, in medieval times, meant being pulled apart by horses; Yorke's skillful production here re-imagines that punishment as a disorienting pleasure."[4]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."FeelingPulledApartByHorses"Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood6:41
2."TheHollowEarth"Thom Yorke4:07
Total length:10:48

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Radiohead's Thom Yorke confirms new single release". NME. 3 September 2009. Retrieved 3 September 2009.
  2. ^ "Thom Yorke – Feelingpulledapartbyhorses". Discogs. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  3. ^ McLean, Craig (January 2002). "Radiohead". The Face.
  4. ^ a b c Hogan, Marc (25 September 2009). ""Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses" by Thom Yorke Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved 23 November 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ a b c Kreps, Daniel (21 September 2009). "New Thom Yorke Single "Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses" Released". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 23 November 2017.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "9. 'Reckoner'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  7. ^ "Ed O'Brien & Thom Yorke at BBC 6Music". BBC 6 Music. 19 November 2007. Archived from the original on 30 December 2007. Retrieved 23 November 2007.
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