Back in 2000, on their pio­neering album Kid A, Radiohead stopped using drums. Was Philip Selway, the band’s drummer, insulted? “Well, once I got over my initial sulk, I could see where it was going,” he says, referring to the electronic direction that the group’s singer, Thom Yorke, was taking them in. Since then, this often confounding outfit have reverted to a more access­ible sound, mostly. Songs from last year’s lush A Moon Shaped Pool connected with thousands on a vast tour, and its climax, a searing Glastonbury set, also offered up an unlikely smattering of 1990s hits.

“Interesting stuff has come out of the points when we’ve been rather more insular,” Selway says carefully of the band’s two decades of wilful experimentation and copious