Radiohead take break from music for one year

Radiohead take break from music for one year

Members of the band want to focus on solo projects.

Philip Selway (L) and Ed O’Brien of Radiohead at the 34th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Centre last year. (AFP pic)
LONDON:
Drummer Philip Selway recently announced that the band will take a “year away” from the recording studio to focus on solo projects.

“There are always conversations going on, but we’ve always got other projects going on.

“This is kind of the year away from Radiohead, but we will pick that up again,” he told NME, without revealing additional details about what fans can expect when they will return.

While Radiohead unveiled their latest and ninth studio album “A Moon Shaped Pool” in 2016, Thom Yorke and his bandmates have each been working on their solo endeavours.

The Radiohead frontman notably composed the soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 supernatural horror film, “Suspiria.”

Last June, he also released his third solo album, “ANIMA,” which arrived with a short film by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Meanwhile, guitarist Ed O’Brien has been teasing his debut solo project as EOB with “Brasil,” in which he enlisted Radiohead bandmate Colin Greenwood on bass.

Radiohead’s multi-instrumentalist and composer Jonny Greenwood launched his own classical music label, Octatonic, back in October.

In the meantime, drummer Philip Selway is gearing towards the release of his third studio album.

Details about the long-awaited follow-up to 2014’s “Weatherhouse” are still scarce to this date, although the English musician told NME that he will spend the coming months “writing and recording.”

“Watch this space. It always surprises me how things can develop. I never expected to be doing soundtrack work before. All of these things are to develop your musicality and bring their own raft of ideas with them,” he added.

In addition to working on their solo projects, the “Creep” rockers recently launched their own Radiohead Public Library, which warehouses their entire catalogue in chronological order.

Hosted at radiohead.com, the online archive features comprehensive materials organised around each of the band’s nine studio albums, with fans enjoying privileged access to music videos, live TV performances, full-length concerts and other rarities.

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