Thom Yorke Talks New Suspiria Score

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke discusses his forthcoming score for the Suspiria remake in a new BBC 6 Music interview. The horror classic’s remake, which stars Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, and Chloë Grace Moretz, will mark Yorke’s first ever movie score. “It’s absolutely terrifying,” Yorke says of the experience. “It’s hard because I’m way out of my comfort zone, and I can’t read music so it’s not like I’m writing for orchestra. I’m building it all myself. In fact, I watched Blade Runner twice at the weekend. ‘Oh, that sound, I could do something like that, that’s quite easy,’” he jokes. “‘I’ll rip that bit off there and that bit there and I’ll be fine.’” In another pair of clips, Yorke discusses his early musical memories and narrowly averting disaster at Radiohead’s 1997 Glastonbury set. Hear all three clips below, and stay tuned for the full interview, which airs Sunday at 8 a.m. Eastern on BBC 6 Music. 

Yorke elaborates on how Vangelis’ Blade Runner score inspired him:

Vangelis, it’s his hands that made that. Which encouraged me. Because that was the thing I was finding most daunting. Normally [scoring] a horror movie involves orchestras, these specific things. But Luca [Guadagnino], the director, and Walter [Fasano], the editor, are very much, like, find your own path with it. … I just have to find a way into it.

On June 23, Radiohead will reissue OK Computer. Head here to read Pitchfork’s series of 20th anniversary features on the classic album.

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