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Prepare Yourself for Radiohead's New Album Sunday With This Essential Playlist

With the imminent release of the band's ninth album, here's an hour-long playlist of Radiohead's most seminal songs.

Radiohead is the Internet's favorite band. As such, any tidbit of information concerning new music from the English quintet, which hasn't released an album in five years, gets picked apart relentlessly. Last weekend, that overzealous analysis went into overdrive when news spread that the band was slowly deleting its social media presence. The online slate-wiping culminated in an animated, intense video for the new single "Burn the Witch," and an online frenzy of speculation over when Radiohead might drop its ninth album (today? Friday the 13th? Limerick Day?!). Guess what? The answer is Sunday, May 8. (Hey, maybe the album is a Mother's Day present to the world?) We know this because the band tweeted outyet another new song from the album, complete with a music video directed by Paul Thomas Anderson---because nothing goes with weird and sometimes inaccessible music like the director of Magnolia! So, how did the band get here? Let's look back at its history, from pop to avant-garde. We put together 13 songs---from each of Radiohead's past albums---to provide a timeline of the group’s rise from early 1990s British rock to the last remaining non-nostalgia act capable of filling stadiums. Get ready for Sunday by rediscovering the essential Radiohead.

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