5 Facts About Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac

Kid A and Amnesiac came from the same recording sessions. Radiohead recorded enough material for two albums between 1999 and 2000.

The band considered releasing it all as a double album. They decided against it, feeling the combined material was too dense.

Amnesiac was released in 2001, less than a year after Kid A. It contains songs that didn’t make the cut for the first album.

The two albums have distinct identities despite shared origins. Kid A is more experimental and electronic, while Amnesiac leans into jazz and krautrock influences.

Amnesiac is not simply leftover material. Radiohead reworked and sequenced the songs to stand on their own as a separate statement.