Chem Bros: 'Radiohead obsessed by marketing'

The Chemical Brothers' Ed Simons has tweeted his frustrations over Radiohead's latest album release.

The band released their new LP The King of Limbs as a download in February, with the physical release available in shops today. They will also be releasing a 'newspaper edition' featuring either the MP3s (£30) or WAVs (£33) together with 2x10" vinyl, a CD and various pieces of artwork packaged in a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic on May 9.

Simons responded to a tweet by writer Sophie Heawood, who wrote: "Am starting to wonder if there's any other band as in love with their own lovedness as the current incarnation of Radiohead."

He replied: "the bends was just ok, not listened to much after that, are they any good? (sic)"

In response to a question about their latest release, he said: "not being bad, but it all just sounds like nonsense to me, it is possible I am wrong on this, but newspaper records, who cares."

He continued: "I have no interest in Radiohead, not their music or their obsession with marketing. by our grace, us multi millionaires are going to give our record away for free, f**k all the musicians trying to catch a break."

When it was suggested that Simons "must be a Coldplay fan", the musician replied: "coldplay are on a different plane to radiohead, they make beautiful music which connects people to their emotions."

He went on to say: "the cocteau twins didn't wrap up their albums in newspapers or whatever it is. the zombies didn't sit around plotting their digital strategy."

Radiohead released a free 'Universal Sigh' newspaper at selected global locations today. They also confirmed a release of a new non-album single to mark this year's Record Store Day.

> Read our review for Radiohead's The King of Limbs.