Black Swan (song)

"Black Swan"
Single by Thom Yorke
from the album The Eraser
Released	July 2006
Genre	Art rock, electronica
Length	4:49
Label	XL Recordings
Writer(s)	Thom Yorke
Producer(s)	Nigel Godrich
Thom Yorke singles chronology
I've Seen It All (2000) "Black Swan" (2006) "Harrowdown Hill" (2006)
The Eraser track listing "The Clock" (3) "Black Swan" (4) "Skip Divided" (5)

"Black Swan" is a song by Radiohead vocalist 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.^[1]

"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."^[2] The 2006 Richard Linklater film A Scanner Darkly features the song over the closing credits.

References

1. "Billboard.com - Artist Chart History - Thom Yorke". 4 August 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-06.
2. David Fricke (1 June 2006). "Radiohead's Thom Yorke on Going Solo". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 21 December 2008. Retrieved 2006-07-16.

External links

• theeraser.net
• Thom Yorke page at the XL Recordings website.