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On the track Daydreaming, the repeated phrase “half of my life” is believed to refer to the time Yorke had spent with Owen, and on Identikit, Yorke repeats the phrase “broken hearts make it rain”.

The Danish word, previously unknown to all but the most hardcore Scandophiles, is now the subject of an avalanche of books, hundreds of Identikit newspaper features, and endless department-store winter displays.

What you definitely would not want is Identikit teams of perfectly matched robots going through familiar patterns.

“Broken hearts make it rain,” Yorke sings in Radiohead’s “Identikit,” and that certainly appears to be the case in a year flooded with high-profile breakup records, including more insular efforts from Drake and James Blake.

Electric guitars only get touched gently, even when they’re being touched in a hurry, like over the motorik putter of “Ful Stop,” or the spartan click-clack of “Identikit.”