Analyse (Thom Yorke song)

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"Analyse"
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Single by Thom Yorke
from the album The Eraser
B-side "A Rat's Nest", "Iluvya"
Released30 October 2006
Genre Art rock, electronic
Length4:05
Label XL Recordings
Songwriter(s) Thom Yorke
Producer(s) Nigel Godrich
Thom Yorke singles chronology
"Harrowdown Hill"
(2006)
"Analyse"
(2006)
"FeelingPulledApartByHorses" / "TheHollowEarth"
(2009)

"Analyse" is a song by the English musician Thom Yorke from his debut solo album, The Eraser (2006). It was released on 30 October, 2006, as a download and on 6 November as a limited edition 12" single in the United Kingdom. [1] [2]

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Writing

"Analyse" was inspired by a blackout in Yorke's hometown of Oxford. Yorke said:

I used to live in central Oxford, on one of those historical streets, with all these houses built in the 1860s. I came home one night and for some reason, the street had a power cut. The houses were all dark, with candlelight in the windows, which is obviously how it would have been when they were built. It was beautiful. [3]

Release

"Analyse" features in the closing credits of Christopher Nolan's 2006 film The Prestige . [4] A remix was released by Various Production, which Yorke described on the Radiohead blog as "a deranged twist". [5]

Track listing

  1. "Analyse" – 4:05
  2. "A Rat's Nest" – 3:35
  3. "Iluvya" – 2:59

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