The Bends was created by the rock band Radiohead.
`` High and Dry '' is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead , released as the first single from their second studio album The Bends ( 1995 ) . Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon , Oxfordshire , formed in 1985 . The Bends ( stylised as the bends ) is the second studio album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead , released on 13 March 1995 by Parlophone Records in the United Kingdom and by Capitol Records in the United States .