Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has shared a new song written for the sixth season of Peaky Blinders.
Last month, Peaky Blinders director Anthony Byrne told NME that Yorke and Radiohead bandmate Jonny Greenwood had written new and original music for the show’s upcoming sixth and final season.
“I’m in seventh heaven over all this,” Byrne said. “Music has always been very important historically and I really wanted to bring a dramatic soundtrack to it. This season we use much more. It’s a much tougher season, so the score goes in a completely different direction.”
As Pitchfork notes, Apple Music’s listing for the new song suggests that “5.17” will be followed by another New York song for the Peaky Blinders on April 2 called “That’s Like Horses.”
In the meantime, listen to “5.17” below.
Yorke, who released his third and final solo album “ANIMA” in 2019, has been sharing new music with various projects over the past few years. His latest glimpse of solo material came with the debut of the new track “Plasticine Figures” during an appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show in April 2020.
York debuted last year with a new project called The Smile alongside Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner. The trio made their first live appearance on Glastonbury’s Live At Worthy Farm in May.
The trio then released their debut single “You Will Never Work In Television Again” and its follow-up “The Smoke” in early 2022, and recently released a one-off vinyl pressing of two of their debut singles.
The band will hit the road this spring to headline Europe. Starting in Zagreb on May 16, the tour also includes performances in Vienna (May 17), Prague (May 19), Berlin (20), Stockholm (23), Oslo (24) and Amsterdam (27).
York and Co. They will then return to these shores for two days of billing at the Roundhouse in Camden, London on 29/30 May. Further UK shows are scheduled at Usher Hall in Edinburgh (June 1st) and Albert Hall in Manchester (June 2nd).
The band recently made their live debut playing three gigs in twelve hours at the Magazine Hall in London, with the NME calling the performances “thorough and engaging” in a four-star review.
“This is an amazing show – of course it should be,” the review said. “It’s an Oscar-nominated composer, a Mercury-nominated jazz drummer, and…well…Radiohead, and they brought all their toys to share. Welcome Smile.”