Radiohead front man, Thom Yorke, broke the record for longest song ever recorded with a 432 hour-long sountrack titled Subterranea--that's an 18-day-long song--made specifically for artist Stanley Donwood's The Panic Office exhibit.
The soundtrack will be displayed during Donwood's 18-day exhibit in Sydney, Australia from May 21 to June 6 at Carriageworks. Donwood and Yorke have had an evolving relationship as friends and collaborators due to Donwood crafting the design of Radiohead's album artworks from their 1994 LP, The Bends, as well as for his side project, Atoms for Peace, notes Billboard. Donwood has worked with the English rock band every step of the way, from their debut album, Pablo Honey, to their most recent LP, The King of Limbs.
Beating the longest recorded song of one hour, 43 minutes and 40 seconds, the lengthy song is an "eerie mix of ambient textures, experimental sounds, and field recordings' and will make good use of the exhibition's cavernous space, with subs booming from the floor, mids echoing through the walls, and highs raining down from the ceiling," according to Triple J.
Sounding similar to the abstract instances off of Yorke's Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, the soundtrack where no two minutes sound the same also features the spoken words technique from Fitter, Happier. "Subs will boom from the floor, mids will echo through the walls, and highs rain down from the ceiling," notes a press release. Donwood's exhibit will feature Radiohead's original album art, showcasing the timeless art for OK Computer to 2007's In Rainbows.
"Some are original, some are unseen and all bear Donwood's evocative and haunting imagery that all helped to create one of the world's most distinctive brands," said Carriageworks of The Panic Office, according to NME.
There are no current plans to unveil the ambitious song to the general public.
