said that working with Yorke on his solo record was easier than working with Radiohead, as "when we were in a room when it's with Radiohead ... I'm trying to manage a relationship between [Yorke] and the band and it's me butting heads with him and trying to work on behalf of the band." On The Eraser, they were able to "pull in the same direction". The Eraser was recorded in Radiohead's Oxford studio, Yorke's home, and Godrich's studio at the Hospital Club, London. Yorke wanted to mainly use computers, but still have "life and energy" in the music. To generate ideas, he cut and pasted clips at random from Radiohead's library of original samples, many of which had been created on laptops in hotel rooms as the band toured. He sent fragments to Godrich, who identified passages that could become songs, edited them and returned them to Yorke. Yorke gave the example of "Black Swan", which was a "nine-minute load of bollocks" until Godrich helped him edit it down. Godrich is also credited for extra instrumentation. To create the title track, Yorke sampled piano chords played by Greenwood and edited them into a new order. "And it Rained All Night" contains a manipulated sample from the Hail to the Thief track "The Gloaming", and "Black Swan" samples a rhythm recorded by guitarist Ed O'Brien and drummer Philip Selway in 2000. Yorke said "Harrowdown Hill" had been "kicking around" during the Hail to the Thief sessions, but could not have worked as a Radiohead song. Yorke initially intended to create instrumental tracks, but added vocals at Godrich's encouragement. On Radiohead albums, Yorke had altered his voice with layers of reverb and other effects; for The Eraser, Godrich wanted Yorke's voice to be "dry and loud". Yorke found it difficult to write lyrics to loops, saying he could not "react spontaneously and differently every time", so he translated them to guitar and piano and generated new elements in the process. He saved one song recorded in the Eraser sessions, "Last Flowers", for the bonus disc of Radiohead's seventh album, In Rainbows (2007). Another song, "The Hollow Earth", was finished later and released as a single in 2009. Music and lyrics The Eraser features "skittery beats and pattery rhythms" and "minimal post-rockisms". The LA Times wrote that it combined Yorke's laptop electronica with "soulful" political songs. Pitchfork described it as "glitchy, sour,