Radiohead's New App: Even Stranger Than Thom Yorke

Available for iPhone and Android, the Polyfauna app takes the band's 2011 album and brings it to life as a strange, trippy ecosystem of color and sound.

In listening to Radiohead's eighth album, 2011's The King Of Limbs, Stan Donwood, a veteran cover artist and a visual collaborator with the band since the 1990s, said that the music conjured "immense multicoloured cathedrals of trees, with music echoing from the branches whilst strange fauna lurked in the fog." The subsequent sketches that Donwood made have now informed the band's latest project: an app called Polyfauna. It's a trippy exploration of an immersive, ever-changing world where sound, flora, weather, and animals are all intertwined.

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