A live video, Live at the Astoria, was released on VHS. " The Bends" was also released as a single in Ireland. Several singles were released, backed by music videos: " My Iron Lung", the double A-side " Planet Telex / High and Dry", " Fake Plastic Trees", " Just", and Radiohead's top-five UK entry " Street Spirit (Fade Out)". It was Radiohead's first collaboration with Godrich and the cover artist Stanley Donwood, who have worked with Radiohead on every album since. The Bends was mixed by Leckie and by Sean Slade and Paul Q. After an international tour in May and June, Radiohead resumed work at Abbey Road in London and the Manor in Oxfordshire. Tensions were high, with pressure from Parlophone to match sales of Radiohead's debut single " Creep", and progress was slow. Work on The Bends began at RAK Studios, London, in February 1994, and lasted around four months in total.
The Bends combines guitar songs and ballads, with more restrained arrangements and cryptic lyrics than Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). Most tracks were produced by John Leckie, with extra production by Radiohead, Nigel Godrich and Jim Warren. The songs were stronger - owing more to the Beatles this time than to U2 - and Radiohead had expanded their palette to include heavy doses of psychedelic guitar, electronics and hints of glam rock.The Bends is the second studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 13 March 1995 by Parlophone. ”) into universal meditations on the kind of primal anguish that we all experience from time to time. On that record, the music not only complemented Yorke’s pretty voice and pensive lyrics but it built on them, sculpting his expressions of inner conflict (“I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain. Pablo Honey was a spotty affair, but Yorke’s soaring, Bono-esque voice and the instrumental prowess of the band pointed to Radiohead’s more ambitious second outing, The Bends. In retrospect, the seeds of a powerful band were there from the beginning. But one listen to Radiohead’s third album, OK Computer - a stunning art-rock tour de force - will have you reeling back to their debut, Pablo Honey, for insight into the group’s dramatic evolution. When their first single, “Creep,” leapt out of MTV’s Buzz Bin, in 1993, it came off like a Nirvana wanna-be from hell the song’s obligatory loud/soft dynamics and Yorke’s self-deprecating lyrics rang empty. On the contrary, Radiohead are one of the few guitar-based bands of the mid-’90s that has grown by leaps and bounds. Which hardly means that his group’s music hasn’t matured.
He has survived the demise of grunge with all of his anxiety and disillusionment intact. The days of whine and poses may be over, but don’t tell that to Radiohead singer Thom Yorke.
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