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Radiohead's Philip Selway chats about the soundtrack for the film Let Me Go

Philip Selway chats to 6 Music Breakfast about the soundtrack for the film Let Me Go

Radiohead's Philip Selway has a new album - the soundtrack for the film Let Me Go

Let Me Go is based on Austrian-born Helga Schneider's memoir of the same name. She was just four years old when her mother Traudi walked out, never to return, in order to train as a guard in Germany's concentration camps.

Helga never knew the truth until, as an adult, she decided to track her mother down in Vienna.

Phil already knew the film's director/co-producer/writer Polly Steele and co-producer Lizzie Pickering and the soundtrack was recorded with Nick Moorbath in Oxford .

There's eleven instrumentals and three ballads with words by Selway. 'Walk' features the fabulous Lou Rhodes (Lamb), who also appears in the film. Selway sings 'Wide Open' and 'Let Me Go' himself.

The album is available to preorder and will be released physically on 27th October via Bella Union and it is available digitally now - it was released digitally on the 15th Sept to coincide with the film's release and 6 Music's Elizabeth Alker spoke to him about the film, writing the soundtrack and his busy summer diary and here he is

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