Black Swan (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Black Swan


Artist = Thom Yorke
from Album = The Eraser
B-side =
Released = July 2006
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = Art rock, electronica
Length = 4:49
Label = XL Recordings
Producer = Nigel Godrich
Reviews =
Last single = I've Seen It All (2000)
This single = "Black Swan" (2006)
Next single = "Harrowdown Hill" (2006)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = The Eraser
Type = studio
prev_track = "The Clock"
prev_no = 3
this_track = "Black Swan"
track_no = 4
next_track = "Skip Divided"
next_no = 5

"Black Swan" is a song by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and is the fourth track on his 2006 album "The Eraser". The song was released to American radio in July 2006 (see 2006 in music). In early August 2006, the song placed at #40 in "Billboard's" Modern Rock Tracks chart. [cite web|title=Billboard.com - Artist Chart History - Thom Yorke|date=4 August 2006
accessdate=2006-08-06
url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=245357&model.vnuAlbumId=780289]

"Black Swan" dates back to the "Kid A" sessions. The song "has this tiny, shredded segment of something that was one of the library samples we had. It was Ed and Phil doing this thing, and I sliced it into bits. The sample was 2000, but the song was 2005."cite web| title="Radiohead's Thom Yorke on Going Solo"| date=1 June 2006| publisher=Rolling Stone| author=David Fricke| accessdate=2006-07-16| url=http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10464376/radioheads_thom_yorke_on_going_solo/] The 2006 Richard Linklater film "A Scanner Darkly" features the song over the closing credits.

References

External links

* [http://theeraser.net/ theeraser.net]
* [http://www.xlrecordings.com/thomyorke/ Thom Yorke page] at the XL Recordings website.