Radiohead frontman surprises with album by file-sharing

OK COMPUTER FILE-SHARING: Thom Yorke, lead singer of the British band Radiohead

Radiohead's ever-experimental frontman Thom Yorke released a surprise new album through computer file-sharing, testing a new way of revenue generation that he hopes can directly benefit musicians.

Called Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, Yorke's second solo album is a melancholy, ambient composition whose layered but measured textures of electronic rifts reflect his frequent theme of the role of the individual in an increasingly industrialised world.