The album depicts a world fraught with rampant consumerism, social alienation, emotional isolation and political malaise in this capacity, OK Computer is often interpreted as having prescient insight into the mood of 21st-century life.

The album initiated a stylistic shift in British rock away from the then-ubiquitous Britpop genre toward melancholic, atmospheric alternative rock that became more prevalent in the next decade. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and won Best Alternative Music Album at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards in 1998. OK Computer received widespread critical acclaim and has been cited by listeners, critics and musicians as one of the greatest albums of all time. A remastered version with additional tracks, OKNOTOK 1997 2017, was released on 22 June 2017 to commemorate the album's twentieth anniversary. The album expanded Radiohead's international popularity and has sold more than 4.5 million copies worldwide. Five songs from the album-'Paranoid Android', 'Karma Police', 'Lucky', 'No Surprises', and 'Airbag'-were released as promotional singles. OK Computer's abstract lyrics, densely layered sound and eclectic range of influences laid the groundwork for Radiohead's later, more experimental work.ĭespite lowered sales estimates by EMI, who deemed the record uncommercial and difficult to market, OK Computer reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and debuted at number 21 on the Billboard 200, Radiohead's highest album entry on the US charts at the time. The band distanced themselves from the guitar-centred, lyrically introspective style of their previous album, The Bends. Other than the song 'Lucky', which was recorded in 1995, Radiohead recorded the album in Oxfordshire and Bath between 1996 and early 1997, mostly in the historic mansion St Catherine's Court. The members of Radiohead self-produced the album with Nigel Godrich, an arrangement they have used for their subsequent albums.

OK Computer is the third studio album by English rock band Radiohead, released on 16 June 1997 on EMI subsidiaries Parlophone and Capitol Records.

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