Even Radiohead have caught the anniversary bug and will celebrate 20 years of OK Computer next month.
Described as ‘a Radiohead completist’s dream’, OKNOTOK is to offer three previously unreleased recordings – I Promise, Lift, and Man Of War – along side the original 12-song tracklist and its eight b-sides, all remastered from the original tapes.
“But why?,” a press release asks. “The original analogue tapes are the highest definition version of the record, and nothing will ever beat them.”
“However in the 20 years since the original release mastering technology has improved a lot, and with new equipment and techniques we can make a digital version that’s an improvement of the original transfer.”
On June 23rd, this anniversary edition will be available in various forms including digital, double CD and triple LP, while a much more expansive ‘boxed edition’ is coming in July, this one featuring extras such as a hardcover book and a notebook containing ‘104 pages from Thom Yorke’s library of scrawled notes of the time’, according to the press release.