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Radiohead Tweets Continue to Excite Fans About Forthcoming Album
Indie | Thursday 4th December 2014 |
Over the last few months various members of the Radiohead camp have been exciting fans through twitter, alluding to the possibility of a new Radiohead album. The cryptic tweets began in September, with singer Thom Yorke suggesting that Radiohead were in the studio working on new material:
Stanley & me going thru15years of discarded words & pictures..!while overdubs happen in Radiohead studio.2nd day only pic.twitter.com/XP3TZVeMzq
— Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) September 23, 2014
The latest came yesterday from producer and longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich, who tweeted an image of Johnny Greenwood and Thom Yorke in the recording studio (pictured above) to the delight of the bands online audience.
It would seem, then, that a release from the experimental Oxfordshire group is imminent, but what can we expect from a new Radiohead record? Since the release of their debut Pablo Honey in 1993, the band have garnered a reputation for radical reinvention. Their last two records, 2007’s In Rainbows and 2011’s The King of Limbs, have also seen the band pursue innovative release methods; the former being released as a pay-what-you-like download and the latter being self-released through the band's website. What’s more, the vacuum since the band's last record has seen many of Radiohead’s members pursue a range of individual music projects, all stylistically very different from each other.
It is impossible to predict what the ninth Radiohead studio album will be like, or the form in which it will be presented. Their desire for musical innovation and their embracement of technology keeps them relevant in a time when so many other artists are looking backward for inspiration. Of one fact we can be certain: record number nine is eagerly anticipated.
Oli Swan
