Thom Yorke – Anima (E/E) – 2xLP, US 2019

Anima is an LP by Thom Yorke from 2019 released on the XL Recordings label.

About this album

Anima is a sharply focused solo album that deepens Thom Yorke’s shift into electronic abstraction. Released in 2019, it finds the Radiohead frontman working with pulse-driven rhythms, fractured textures and uneasy melodic fragments that place introspection inside a colder digital frame. The album was closely associated with Yorke’s long-running collaboration with producer Nigel Godrich, whose precise studio work helps give the record its controlled, immersive character. With standouts such as Traffic, Dawn Chorus and Not the News, Anima became one of Yorke’s most acclaimed post-Radiohead statements, praised for balancing experimentation with a distinctly human sense of unease.