‘Motion Picture Soundtrack’ is an ending song. The track sends-off Kid A with quite the opposite of a bang, however it is still quite a grand finale with its mellow organs, awe-inspiring harps and overall sorrowful atmosphere. The song is inherently sad but it’s a different kind of deep and beating emotion. The one that comes with the end of something.

Yorke’s voice is a smooth lament full of regret and solitude. “Cheap sex and sad films help me get where I belong” he cries in the verse, claiming that those two things have the same effect as drugs and help him deal with numbing depression. The cause of this is also what differentiates ‘Motion Picture Soundtrack’ with the whole album. A break-up; the end of love and the emptiness that comes after a strong loss of connection. ‘I think you’re crazy, maybe’ resounds the elegy in chorus, underlining that the feeling is such, that the person that left the narrator is to blame.

Quite accurately, ‘Motion Picture Soundtrack’ is a cinematic tune. The instrumentals by the final chorus and coda fill your ears with nostalgia and longing and then the phrase: ‘I will see you in the next life’ close the song and Kid A with a blind jump into sonic oblivion leaving a long-lasting sensation of a fulfilling musical experience.