Radiohead’s 2000 song ‘Everything In Its Right Place’ is presented as a crucial turning point for Thom Yorke and the band after the immense pressure following the success of OK Computer. Yorke reportedly wrote the piece after feeling burnt out following a 1997 Birmingham show, and it later helped give Radiohead creative direction while they struggled to shape their next album.

The article says Yorke initially composed the song on piano and developed it with longtime producer Nigel Godrich, largely without the other band members’ involvement. During recording at Batsford Park in Gloucestershire, guitarist Ed O’Brien recalled that the track emerged after months of experimentation and impressed the group as a clear, beautiful new direction; it ultimately became the opening track and a defining statement of Kid A.