Rabbit in Your Headlights

Stereogum described "Rabbit in Your Headlights" as a "haunting deconstructed piano ballad ... a smoky jazz horror show". It was written by the Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke, and the Unkle member Josh Davis (also known as DJ Shadow), whose 1996 album Endtroducing influenced Radiohead's 1997 album OK Computer. It also contains dialogue sampled from the 1990 film ''Jacob's Ladder''. The Unkle member James Lavelle said Unkle originally intended to collaborate with Radiohead, but Yorke wanted to "do something completely different". According to Lavelle, after the success of OK Computer, Yorke was "able to slightly dissociate himself from what he needed to attain with Radiohead". Yorke recorded his vocals in California in 1997 while on tour with Radiohead. ==Music video==

The music video was directed by Jonathan Glazer, who had directed the videos for Radiohead's singles "Street Spirit" and "Karma Police". Glazer was unsatisfied with his "Karma Police" video, saying he had "missed emotionally and dramatically". He made the "Rabbit in Your Headlights" video as a companion, and felt he achieved what he had failed to with "Karma Police". In 2010, Pitchfork named it the eighth-greatest video of the 1990s, writing: "Pre-millennial tension rarely got this dark; technical accomplishments rarely this re-watchable." == Legacy ==

In 2016, Pitchfork credited "Rabbit in Your Headlights" as a "turning point" for Yorke, placing his vocals in the context of experimental electronic music for the first time and foreshadowing Radiohead's 2000 album Kid A. Covering Psyence Fiction in Stereogum for its 20th anniversary, Chris Devile wrote of "Rabbit in Your Headlights": "That's a great music video, but the song is even more of an achievement ... 'Rabbit in Your Headlights' alone makes Psyence Fiction worth remembering." ==References==