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Radiohead's seventh studio album is in production and is expected to be released sometime in 2007. Radiohead have been working on it for about two years, starting in early 2005. It is unknown how far the recording has progressed and what its title will be.

Contract and release

The band are currently unsigned, having fulfilled their six-album contract with EMI. In interviews in 2006, the band said that "for the first time, we have no contract or release deadline to fulfill - it's both liberating and terrifying".[1]. They stated that they will not make a decision on how to release their new material until it is finished, but that they do not plan to permanently re-sign to a label. As Thom Yorke has hinted at a plan to release EPs rather than an album, it is unknown whether the band has plans to negotiate a new contract with a label for the release of current and future recordings.

Musical influences

Radiohead's new music has been characterized by the band as "almost embarrassingly minimal," "sparse with lots of bass," and, more recently, "lush", according to Stanley Donwood, who is working closely with them on the artwork of the new album.[citation needed] Regarding the lyrical concept, Yorke said in May 2006, "It's about that anonymous fear thing, sitting in traffic, thinking, 'I'm sure I'm supposed to be doing something else'... it's similar to OK Computer in a way. It's much more terrifying. But OK Computer was terrifying too - some of the lyrics were."[2]

Recording history

After a break in 2004, Radiohead began work in early 2005. Yorke and Jonny Greenwood debuted a new song, "Arpeggi", at London's Ether Festival in March 2005; Greenwood also debuted two of his own classical pieces, one written for the Ondes Martenot. Later that summer, Yorke performed an acoustic set for the Trade Justice Rally, playing the never-recorded "Nude" and "Reckoner", debuting the new song "House of Cards", and introducing "Last Flowers [Till Hospital]", a previously unheard remnant from the OK Computer period. In September 2005, the band recorded a new piano-based song, "I Want None of This", for the War Child charity album Help: A Day in the Life. This album was sold online, with Radiohead's contribution being the most downloaded track, although it was not released as a single.

Radiohead returned to regular recording sessions by late summer 2005, posting intermittently on their progress in their new blog, Dead Air Space. Recording continued into early 2006. In the initial sessions, they chose to work with Mark "Spike" Stent instead of their longtime co-producer Nigel Godrich. As revealed by Ed O'Brien in December 2005, the switch was made amiably because the band felt too comfortable with Godrich and wanted to challenge themselves.[citation needed] The band finished work with Stent in spring 2006.

In May and June 2006, Radiohead toured major cities in Europe and North America, returning to Europe for several concerts in August. The tour, their first in several years, drew sold out crowds to smaller venues such as clubs and theatres, including a benefit performance in London for Friends of the Earth's campaign to stop climate change. They also played some big music festivals such as the massive Bonnaroo and V Festival; they headlined both lineups of V and played a 28-song set at Bonnaroo, their longest live concert in years. In addition to playing old songs and re-arranged band versions of "Arpeggi", "Nude", "I Want None of This", and "House of Cards", Radiohead premiered 10 new songs. This tour coincided with the release of Yorke's solo album, The Eraser, from which the track "Cymbal Rush" was performed at the environmental benefit, but otherwise the band did not play Yorke's solo songs as a group.

After the tour, the band restarted recording sessions, this time with Nigel Godrich. Yorke said on Dead Air Space that the band have "started the record properly now... starting to get somewhere I think. Finally."[3] By late December 2006, they finished their third month of recording with Godrich at several rural locations in England. Since mid-January Radiohead have resumed recording sessions following a one-month holiday break. [4]

Potential songs

These songs were played live on the 2006 tour to introduce new material, so each is a possible candidate for inclusion on the album. However, according to interviews, not all may be included, and these represent only a portion of the newly written material.

  • "Bangers 'n' Mash"
  • "Nude", formerly known as "Big Ideas (Don't Get Any)"
  • "Open Pick"
  • "Go Slowly"
  • "4-Minute Warning"
  • "Spooks"
  • "Bodysnatchers"
  • "Videotape"
  • "Down Is The New Up"
  • "All I Need"
  • "Arpeggi"
  • "House of Cards"
  • "15 Step"
  • "I Want None of This", although already released on the "Help-a Day in the Life" album, may also be considered for inclusion.

There exist some older and unreleased live and webcast songs that may appear on the album, though some are considered highly unlikely:

  • "Last Flowers till the Hospital"
  • "Lift"
  • "Morning Mi lord", aka "Good Morning M'Lord", aka "Good Morning Mr Magpie"
  • "I Froze Up"
  • "Ed's Scary song"
  • "Reckoner"
  • "Follow Me Around"
  • "Big Boots", aka "Man O War"
  • "Up on the Ladder"
  • "I Promise"

There are some announced tracks that were never played live,[5] and it is unknown if the band are still working on them or if the names have changed into the ones listed above:

  • "Burn the Witch"
  • "Pigsee"
  • "Faust arp"
  • "Pay Day"
  • "Bodies Laughing"
  • "Trills"
  • "Rubbernecks"
  • "Solutions"
  • "Big Cheese"

One song, known only as "Come to Your Senses," was soundchecked on June 24, in Berkeley, CA. The song features bluegrass influence and at least one member of the band is playing a banjo.

Notes

  1. ^ Radiohead ticketing site [1]
  2. ^ NME, April 3, 2006. [2]
  3. ^ Dead Air Space, October 15, 2006. [3]
  4. ^ Plank's blog, "Gott Nytt Ar!", January 4, 2007. [4]
  5. ^ Dead Air Space [5]
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