Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses / The Hollow Earth

"Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses" and "The Hollow Earth" 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]

"Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses"
Single by Thom Yorke
A-side"Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses"
B-side"The Hollow Earth"
Released21 September 2009
RecordedAugust 2009
GenreElectronica
Label_Xurbia_Xendless Limited
Songwriter(s)Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood
Producer(s)Nigel Godrich
Thom Yorke singles chronology
"Analyse"
(2006)		 "Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses" / "The Hollow Earth"
(2009)

"Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses" began as a Radiohead song, first performed in 2001. "The Hollow Earth" came from the recording sessions for Yorke's solo album The Eraser (2006).[1]

Background and recording

Radiohead performed an early version of "Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses", 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] In 2009, Yorke and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood reworked the original song as "Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses",[1] with bass guitar, "glitchy" drums, "disembodied" vocals, and an extended synthesiser coda.[4]

Yorke described "The Hollow Earth" as a "bass menace" that came from the recording sessions for his first solo album, The Eraser (2006).[1]

Reception

Pitchfork gave "Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses" 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."Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses"Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood6:41
2."The Hollow Earth"Thom Yorke4:07
Total length:10:48

References
  1. "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. Hogan, Marc (25 September 2009). ""Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses" by Thom Yorke Review | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  5. Kreps, Daniel (21 September 2009). "New Thom Yorke Single "Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses" Released". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  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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