After a surprise announcement during a PlayStation showcase earlier this year, Epic Games and world-famous rock band Radiohead have announced the release date of Kid A Mnesia Exhibition. This experience will be available for free later this month.
To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Kid A and Amnesiac albums, “Radiohead and Epic Games Publishing are proud to present KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION: an upside-down digital/analogue universe created from original artwork by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood and sound design by Nigel Godrich.”
This has been in the works for a few years now, but not in the way fans may expect. The Radiohead celebration was originally made to be experienced in-person at events all over the world, but, like many things, COVID-19 brought it to a standstill. So, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, producer Nigel Godrich, and artist Stanley Donwood collaborated on how to make it a virtual experience.
“Everything experienced within Kid A Mnesia Exhibition is sourced directly from the original artwork and multitrack recordings of those fourth and fifth Radiohead albums—all rebuilt from the original elements in a new controlled space without the limitations of stereo sound or LP/CD packaging,” said a description of the experience in a new press release. “Kid A Mnesia Exhibition can be considered a mutant re-engineering of Kid A Mnesia, the multiple format triple-album release marking the 21st anniversary of Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac albums.”
Kid A Mnesia Exhibition will release for free on Thursday, November 18. The experience will be available on PlayStation 5, PC, and Mac.
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