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Radiohead confirm they're working on a new album

by Mark Teo

While Thom Yorke’s been keeping busy—namely, by releasing Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes via Bittorrent, cutting records with Atoms For Peace, and comparing Spotify to a corpse’s fart—it’s been three years since Radiohead released any new material. The twitchy singer shared a mysterious photo of a white vinyl record on Tumblr, which many have interpreted as the new Radiohead record, but band members haven’t announced any news regarding the followup to King of Limbs. Until now.

In an interview with an Oxfordshire BBC station, guitarist Johnny Greenwood said that the band’s in-studio jamming and recording. Here’s what we know as of now.

Well, I’m late. They’ve all gone [to the studio] now. We’re currently playing and recording and it’s fun to see everyone again. It’s been a long time coming. We’ve been waiting all of us for a long time.

But don’t get your man buns in a knot yet. Greenwood says that they don’t quite have the sonic direction of their forthcoming album figured out yet, so it’s unlikely that we’ll hear the album soon.

It always feels when we start up like we still don’t know really how to do it, and we don’t know quite what to do. “Looking down avenues” is a very kind way of putting the kind of fumbling that we do, mainly because every time we try and do it like the last time, because that worked, it never seems to work. So we talk about different approaches and we’re currently trying a bunch out.

OK, so Greenwood hasn’t yet leaked much about their new album. But any news, to us, is good news, and when we heard that Radiohead were recording, we were all: