Unreleased Radiohead Song Spooks Appears in Inherent Vice

UPDATE: In a tweet to Pitchfork,Jonny Greenwood has clarified Radioheads involvement in the new song on Inherent Vice. Except its really a half idea we never made work live, wrote the Radiohead guitarist. I rewrote it and got Supergrass to play it. Its good, but not very rh!

Paul Thomas Andersons Inherent Vice is already one of the most anticipated films of 2014, and now theres even more reason to look forward to the first big screen adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel: According to reports, an unreleased Radioheadtrack called Spooks appears in the film. Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood composed the music for Inherent Vice he also scored the directors There Will Be Blood and The Master and as Slate reportedfrom the Inherent Vice premiere at the New York Film Festival, the end credits confirm that the new Radiohead track featuresin the movie.

Although Radiohead fans wont be able to hear Spooks until Inherent Vice opens December 12th, the song title is familiar to them: Prior to the release of In Rainbows, when Radiohead was still road-testing the new tracks that would later appear on their groundbreaking LPduring a 2006 tour, Spooks was among the new tracks the band was experimenting with. The one-minute-long surf rock instrumental was closer in sound to Dick Dale and the Ventures than Kid A and Atoms for Peace:

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After nearly 20 live performances of the track, Spooks ultimately didnt make the In Rainbows cut or reach B-side status, and Radiohead eventually abandoned it, but it appears not totally as Greenwood has seemingly resurrected it from those In Rainbows sessions and added it to Inherent Vice, a psychedelic noir based in the early-1970s that fits the California vibe of the track. However, in the past Radiohead has stripped song titles off tracks and applied them to completely different songs, like Reckoner, so its possiblethe Inherent Spooks is a different tune entirely.

The resurfacing of Spooks is just the latest surprise from the band in the past few weeks. On September 26th, with Radiohead reportedly in the studio working on their ninth LP, singer Thom Yorkeunexpectedly released a new album dubbed Tomorrows Modern Boxesvia BitTorrent.