Radiohead isn’t playing Coachella this twelvemonth — but the English art-rock set is inactive here.
The godforsaken festival has a caller abstraction for 2026 called the Bunker, which Radiohead has taken implicit to premiere an audiovisual installation that looks backmost astatine its albums “Kid A” and “Amnesiac” connected the juncture of some albums’ turning a quarter-century old.
Located betwixt the Sahara Tent and the Do Lab, the Bunker is simply a gigantic subterranean cavern with country for 300 oregon truthful radical — a acheronian and chill respite from the blazing Indio sun. When I took a circuit aboriginal Friday afternoon, workers were inactive sweeping the freshly laid factual floors up of the archetypal nationalist showing (and astatine slightest 1 feline was rolling down the grassy mound that sits atop the space).
“KID A MNESIA,” arsenic the set is calling the experience, sets animations by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood — deliberation creepy instrumentality figures scuttling done assorted postapocalyptic settings — to caller philharmonic soundscapes created from the sounds of those 2 LPs.
There’s besides artwork hung passim the abstraction — and, of course, a acquisition store filled with Radiohead merch.
After Coachella, the installation is scheduled to deed the roadworthy with stops successful Brooklyn, Chicago, Mexico City and beyond.

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