Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has confirmed his sophomore solo album, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, to be released via BitTorrent. In a statement, the Radiohead frontman said that this allows “those people who make either music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves.”

The album bundle, which features eight tracks and a music video, is available for purchase here.

Yorke has been a long proponent in the war against Spotify and the methods by which music is distributed, calling the popular streaming service the “last desperate fart of a dying corpse.”

Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes serves as the follow-up to his 2006 solo debut, The Eraser.

Here’s the full message from Yorke:

As an experiment we are using a new version of BitTorrent to distribute a new Thom Yorke record.

The new Torrent files have a pay gate to access a bundle of files..

The files can be anything, but in this case is an ‘album’.

It’s an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around…

If it works well it could be an effective way of handing some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work.

Enabling those people who make either music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves.

Bypassing the self elected gate-keepers.

If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.

The torrent mechanism does not require any server uploading or hosting costs or ‘cloud’ malarkey.

It’s a self-contained embeddable shop front…

The network not only carries the traffic, it also hosts the file. The file is in the network.

Oh yes and it’s called

Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes.

Thom Yorke & Nigel Godrich