New Radiohead Album Complete!

[Chantel]

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood has confirmed the band’s long-awaited seventh studio LP is all recorded and ready for release.

The guitarist, solo artist and composer revealed the details to Paste Magazine on Friday, causing a flurry of activity on the band’s official and unofficial message boards.

“We’re very relieved to have finished recording,” he said. “Now we have to decide what we should do with it.”

The question for the Oxford quintet now is how to release the album. After finishing their six-album deal with EMI after Hail to the Thief (2003), they have remained independent, avoiding all talk of contracts. One rumour suggests the band may remain unsigned, striking up a deal with a major label to handle only the distribution of the release.

Earlier in the year, clips from several songs appeared online, added to YouTube by producer Nigel Godrich. Track names revealed so far include Open Pick, All I Need, Down is the New Up, Arpeggi and Bangers ‘n’ Mash.

[Hitman]

[mrkeys]

Yay!!!

It might just be me but I think they are getting better and better...

I know I am in the minority here..

[Chantel]

I'm tending to agree...slightly

[Hitman]

The potential is there.

I doubt they'd be able to top Kid A though...

[mrkeys]

I doubt they'd be able to top Kid A though...

really dig Kid A my fave is Amnesiac...

[Hitman]

Really?

Amnesiac has some cool songs, but Kid A works better as a whole album to me...

[mrkeys]

Yeh I don't know I found the experimental stuff on Amnesiac really interesting...

[Hitman]

What experimental stuff?

[mrkeys]

Yeh perhaps experimental is too strong a word or I just used it the wrong way.

Perhaps a better way of putting it they were experimenting heaps with arrangements and different types of sounds...I guess when you read Ed O'Brien talking about how they played different instruments than they were used to, how they approached the songs a bit like Massive Attack in layering songs it was less guitar based etc...

I think the first track "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box" has that kind of keys, experimental feel to it..reminded me heaps of Laurie Anderson.