This Isn’t Happening: Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ and the Beginning of the 21st Century

STEVEN HYDEN GOES deep into why Radiohead’s 2000 masterpiece matters — it’s the fascinating saga of how the music turned into the symbol of a new cultural era. He chases the mystery of how Kid A “stopped being about the future” and “came to strongly evoke everything vital and terrifying and unknowable about now.”