Spectre (song)

"Spectre"
Single by Radiohead
Released 25 December 2015
Format Download
Recorded 2014
Length 3:19
Label Self-released
Radiohead singles chronology
"The Daily Mail" / "Staircase"
(2011)		 "Spectre"
(2015)		 "Burn the Witch"
(2016)

"Spectre" is a 2015 song by English rock band Radiohead, released as a free download on the music streaming site SoundCloud on 25 December 2015.[1] It was written for the James Bond film of the same name, but went unused; the film instead features the song "Writing's on the Wall" by Sam Smith.[2] Radiohead did not reveal why the song was not used,[3] but stated: "It didn't work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much."[4]

According to Pitchfork, "Spectre" features Thom Yorke's "delicate, forlorn" falsetto with "jerky" piano chords, "decaying orchestral sweeps" and "jazzy" drums reminiscent of Radiohead's 2001 single "Pyramid Song".[5] It was described by Consequence of Sound as "a gorgeous, orchestral ballad"[6] and by Rolling Stone as "darkly orchestral".[7] Variety wrote that it "retains Radiohead’s signature moody sound, with a somber sweeping grandeur that might have fit well into the Bond song canon."[8] Pitchfork named it the week's "Best New Music" and wrote that it has "all the melodrama of a good Bond song but only a hint of the kitsch... [it is] one of the finest Radiohead songs in some years, much more than a one-off curiosity."[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Spectre". SoundCloud. Radiohead. 25 December 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Radiohead reveal rejected theme for James Bond film Spectre". bbc.com. BBC News. 25 December 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  3. ↑ York, Agence France-Presse in New. "Radiohead's Bond theme the gift that fans didn't Spectre receive for Christmas". the Guardian. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Yorke, Thom (25 December 2015). "Facebook post". Facebook. Radiohead. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Radiohead: "Spectre"". Pitchfork. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Radiohead did write the theme for James Bond's Spectre, and you can hear it now -- listen". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Hear Radiohead's Unused James Bond Theme 'Spectre'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  8. ↑ "Thom Yorke Posts Rejected Radiohead 'Spectre' Theme Song (AUDIO)". Variety. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
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