For all the spooky cool and spacy mysteriousness surrounding Radiohead and the recording of its new album, "Kid A," the Oxford, England, band has been a fairly well-known commodity in the States since the release of its first LP, 1993's "Pablo Honey."

Even though the band has all but disavowed "Creep," the single from "Pablo Honey" that helped introduce the band on this side of the Atlantic, the "accidental" riff that punctuated the track -- courtesy of guitarist Jonny Greenwood's test to see if his amp was on -- has proven to be emblematic of the band's approach to recording.

Radiohead's anthemic, big-rock stage culminated in 1995's "The Bends," which then led to its cerebral -- and commercially successful -- breakthrough LP, "OK Computer," some two years later. The group opted for a relatively cloistered approach to cutting the follow-up, "Kid A," which generated the kind of pre-release buzz and fanfare not afforded British guitar bands these days -- especially ones that have jettisoned their guitars in favor of even more challenging, synth-based, and FX-layered material.

Luckily for us, Radiohead has delivered the goods on "Kid A," even if we aren't quite sure exactly what those goods are all about. The week after the album's release, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke sat down with MTV News' Kurt Loder to discuss and decipher the disc, which Yorke said was riddled with references to genetic engineering, pyramids and the Mayan calendar, and the next stage in human development.

Oh yeah, this you've got to read to believe.