Radiohead Countdown Wallpaper: #6 of 7 Hail to the Thief
October 8, 2007 // Art + Design + Illustration + Internet + Music


There’s only one more day until the new Radiohead album is released! Todays wallpaper, although extremely late, might be one of my favorites. It’s for their album Hail to the Thief, and happens to be my second least favorite album of theirs. Although it has a lot of great songs on it, it didn’t flow quite like the other albums. It reminds me of what happened with Travis. They came out with 2 great albums, and then decided to write a political-tinged one, and it wasn’t so great. But their new album is great… so maybe Radiohead will follow a similar pattern?

This album was completely influenced by the name of the album. Hail to the Thief indeed. I just love that he’s staring down some scary ass wolf (a reference to the last song). Although, he looks like he could be smart here, so that doesn’t quite fit. Anyhow, I was pretty pleased with how my drawing came out, so there’s that.

Tomorrow is the last wallpaper, and at midnight, the new album will come out!

Bobby

  1. nice drawing, bob

    Comment by Patrick — October 9, 2007 #

  2. Love all the wallpapers. This might now replace the pablo honey ;)

    Comment by Jon — October 9, 2007 #

  3. Holy shit, you drew this?! I quit.

    Comment by Garrett — October 9, 2007 #

  4. It’s very cool, although Thom Yorke has stated that the album title was not in fact a reference to Bush(http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/13/1055220766407.html).
    Nice drawings though!

    Comment by josh — October 9, 2007 #