Studio Album · No. 5
Amnesiac Songwriting Credits by Radiohead
Produced by Nigel Godrich, Radiohead · Engineered by Nigel Godrich
Holds writing credit on 11 of 11 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 11 / 11 documented
Scored across the 11 tracks with documented writers, by whether Radiohead carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 11 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Awards & Recognition 2
All songs on Amnesiac are credited collectively to Radiohead's five members rather than to individual songwriters, following the band's standard practice. The album was drawn from the same January 1999 to April 2000 sessions that produced Kid A, with Nigel Godrich producing and engineering both records. The band split the material across two albums because they felt it was too dense to release as a single double album. Like Kid A, Amnesiac continued the band's exploration of electronic and experimental textures alongside more traditional song structures.
Radiohead's fifth studio album, released June 5, 2001. Assembled from sessions recorded alongside Kid A, Amnesiac is a companion piece that draws from the same electronic and jazz-influenced creative period but pursues a different emotional arc. All 11 tracks are written by Radiohead collectively. 'Life in a Glasshouse' features the Humphrey Lyttelton Band on brass, contributing to the track's New Orleans funeral dirge character; no additional writing credit is given to Lyttelton. 'Pyramid Song' is considered by many critics to be among the band's greatest compositions, its unusual rhythmic structure and string arrangement building to an extraordinary climax.