Phil Selway: “We have absolutely no idea how this album is going to be received. But the great thing is, that we're going to be going back in and recording again in November. Which, for us, you know, would be five or six weeks after releasing an album! And that's an amazing position to be in. We've never been able to do that, we've had to leave it for at least sixteen months before we could actually start doing that again. So, I think even though you do get the reviews coming through for the records, you can actually move on from them. Because you're moving on to the next stage already. You can actually address the issues that come up from that very constructively in the studio, rather than sitting around, stewing on tour thinking: 'well, there's nothing we can do about this, we're just going to go out and be a jukebox now for the next ten months or so.'”

Robert Sandall: “We speak about this as if Kid A was all you were recording, but of course, at the same time that you were recording the songs on this album, you were recording the songs on the next album, which I believe you've already finished. So, how did those two parallel projects work? Or maybe they weren't parallel projects?”

Jonny Greenwood: “I think we just started to enjoy being in the studio, is the short answer, and recorded far too much material for one record and wanted to release it very quickly, that's all. We considered doing a double album, but there's something that made us nervous about that. A lot of bands get to their third or fourth record and think their music's good enough to hold an hour and a half of your attention, but I'm not sure it's always true. So we kind of shied away from that.”

Mark Russell: “And does the stuff on the parallel album sound like Kid A, or is it a different sound?”

Jonny: “It does sound similar, because it was recorded at the same time, and there are some similar sounding songs, I'm sure. I mean, the press has suggested that it's going to be a commercial pop song album. [laughs]”

Robert: “Yes, that has been said, hasn't it?”

Jonny: “Yeah, which has got us all, kind of, you know, biting our knuckles, 'oh no, here we go again', but anyway, that's how it is.”

Mark: “And you're actually recording the album after that now?”

Jonny: “We're doing yet more recording, yeah. It's funny, it has been a long process to get to the stage where recording becomes enjoyable, regularly enjoyable, and not as stressful as it always was.”