Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book by Thom Yorke & Stanley Donwood - New Paperback - Radiohead Kid A & Amnesiac Faxes, Lyrics & Sketches

Details Condition: New Format: Paperback ISBN: 9781838857363 Publisher: Canongate Books Age Range: Adult (Non Fiction) Overview Fear Stalks the Land! is a pocket-sized commonplace book gathering the private faxes, notes, fledgling lyrics, sketches and scribblings exchanged between Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and artist Stanley Donwood during 1999-2000, the period in which Kid A and Amnesiac were created. Brand new in paperback, it offers fans and creatives alike a rare, intimate window into the messy, exhilarating process behind two of the most acclaimed albums of the era, capturing the fears and fantasies of a world facing a new millennium. About the Book This is a document unlike a conventional book: a scrapbook of the creative dialogue between two collaborators at the height of their powers. Inside are faxes sent back and forth, half-formed lyrics that would later become some of Radiohead's most enduring songs, sketches, lists, and stream-of-consciousness scribblings "towards nirvana". Compiled from material exchanged during the making of Kid A and Amnesiac, the book reveals the anxieties of the age - millennial dread, surveillance, the corrosive pull of technology - refracted through Yorke's lyrical fragments and Donwood's visual imagination. It is published alongside the companion full-colour artwork volume, Kid A Mnesia, and stands as the first collection of writing from either author. Presented as a compact A-format paperback with French flaps, a five-colour debossed cover, and black-and-white imagery throughout, it feels like a discovered artefact rather than a polished retrospective. Long-time listeners can trace lyrics back to their earliest scrawled forms; newer fans get an accessible entry into the band's most experimental era. Students of music, art and design will find plenty in the raw interplay of word and image, while collectors gain a genuine primary document from a celebrated creative partnership. Rare, unfiltered look at the creative process be