In a guest blog for the Guardian, perennially tortured Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke lays out his somewhat surprising feelings of optimism regarding global climate change:

These changes might be small, but they are in the right direction. Unlike pessimists such as James Lovelock, I don’t believe we are all doomed. It was good to hear Sir David King recently saying he was an optimist and human behaviour is changing. As I heard George Monbiot saying not long ago, isn’t it funny how in the space of a year we went from listening to sceptics who denied this was happening to suddenly saying we’re all doomed - how interesting that both scenarios demand that we do nothing. That can’t be right. You should never give up hope.

Thom Yorke as the voice of hope? What is the world coming to?

It was announced last week that Radiohead have signed with British label XL Recordings for the UK distribution of their new album In Rainbows. The special In Rainbows box edition will be available December 3rd.

In anticipation of the hard-release of In Rainbows, their old label Parlophone is issuing a 7-disc boxed set of their previously released albums (including Pablo Honey (1993), The Bends (1995), Ok Computer (1997), Kid A (2000), Amnesiac (2001), Hail to the Thief (2003) and their live album I Might Be Wrong (2001)). That’s cool and all I guess (if you are missing more than one or two pieces of their catalog). If you’re a real n3rd you’ll be purchasing all of that on their 4GB USB stick (which will be shaped like their freaky-eyed bear image). The stick will be released alongside the CD box set on December 10th. You can pre-order that shit here.