Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book by Thom Yorke & Stanley Donwood - Non Fiction - Paperback

Details. Condition: New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781838857363. Publisher: Canongate Books. Age Range: Adult (Non Fiction). Overview. Fear Stalks the Land! is a pocket-sized commonplace book gathering the private faxes, notes, fledgling lyrics, sketches and scribblings exchanged between Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and artist Stanley Donwood during 1999-2000, the period in which Kid A and Amnesiac were created. Brand new in paperback, it offers fans and creatives alike a rare, intimate window into the messy, exhilarating process behind two of the most acclaimed albums of the era, capturing the fears and fantasies of a world facing a new millennium.. About the Book. This is a document unlike a conventional book: a scrapbook of the creative dialogue between two collaborators at the height of their powers. Inside are faxes sent back and forth, half-formed lyrics that would later become some of Radiohead's most enduring songs, sketches, lists, and stream-of-consciousness scribblings "towards nirvana". Compiled from material exchanged during the making of Kid A and Amnesiac, the book reveals the anxieties of the age - millennial dread, surveillance, the corrosive pull of technology - refracted through Yorke's lyrical fragments and Donwood's visual imagination. It is published alongside the companion full-colour artwork volume, Kid A Mnesia, and stands as the first collection of writing from either author. Presented as a compact A-format paperback with French flaps, a five-colour...