Anima is the third studio album by the English musician Thom Yorke, released on 27 June 2019 through XL Recordings. It was produced by Yorke's longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich. Anima comprises electronic music developed through live performances and studio work, with themes of anxiety and dystopia. It was accompanied by a short film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, which was released on Netflix and in select IMAX theatres, and a music video for "Last I Heard (...He Was Circling the Drain)". Yorke embarked on an international tour to support the album; later dates were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Anima became Yorke's first number-one album on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart. It received positive reviews and was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package at the 2020 Grammy Awards. The Anima film received acclaim and was nominated for the Grammy for Best Music Film. The album was followed by the Not the News Rmx EP, featuring an extended version of "Not the News" plus remixes. Writing and recording Yorke wrote Anima following a period of writer's block and anxiety. Inspired by seeing the electronic musician Flying Lotus improvising live with loops, Yorke and longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich developed Anima through live performances and studio work. Yorke would send Godrich "sprawling" unfinished tracks and Godrich would edit them into shorter samples and loops, which Yorke wrote vocals to. They performed several Anima tracks, including "Not the News", on the tour for Yorke's previous album Tomorrow's Modern Boxes. Radiohead drummer Philip Selway contributed "sped-up drums" to "Impossible Knots", and Atoms for Peace drummer Joey Waronker appears on the end of "The Axe". Music and lyrics Anima comprises electronic music with "layers of electronic fuzz and deconstructed noise". Yorke said its themes include anxiety and dystopia; he felt that dystopian environments were "a really good way of expressing anxiety creatively". The title Anima, a reference to the psychoanalyst Carl Jung's concepts of the anima and animus, came from Yorke's interest in dreams. Pitchfork said Anima was "full of wraithlike frequencies and fibrillating pulses". "Traffic", the opening track, "channels the heady grooves and pulses of Floating Points". "Dawn Chorus" is a "reverential song about loss, nostalgia, and regret" with "hushed", almost-spoken vocals. The "Not the News" melody resembles a ticking clock and builds to a "mass of chaotic orchestration". "Impossible Knots" features a "propulsive electric bassline",