Kid A is the fourth studio album by the English indie rock band Radiohead, released on 2 October 2000 by Parlophone. The album falls under first wave post-rock; frustrated and exhausted after touring for the band's 1997 album OK Computer, Thom Yorke envisioned a radical change in musical direction. For the album, Radiohead began to work more with synthesisers, drum machines, the ondes Martenot, string orchestras and brass instruments, incorporating influences from genres such as electronic music like IDM, as well as krautrock, space rock, jazz, modern classical music and ambient music. They recorded Kid A with OK Computer producer Nigel Godrich in Paris, Copenhagen, Gloucestershire and their hometown Oxford, England. The sessions produced over 20 tracks; Radiohead saved many of them for their subsequent album, Amnesiac, released the following year in 2001. Its departure from Radiohead's earlier sound initially divided fans and critics despite glimpses of its style in their previous albums and B-sides, but it later attracted widespread acclaim; at the turn of the decade, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and the Times ranked Kid A the greatest album of the 2000s, and in 2012, Rolling Stone ranked it number 67 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.