The Bends is a rock album.
`` 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 ) . The Bends . The album spawned five charting singles ; My Iron Lung was first released as an EP in 1994 before the album was released , and `` High and Dry '' was later released with the album 's opener `` Planet Telex '' as its B-side .