Radiohead starts recording LP8

[Art Vandelay]

+1 for the joke
-2 for it being a recycled iteration of a joke you already made!

I already made that joke? Wow I must be getting old. I honestly thought it was fresh material.

[falafel]

I already made that joke? Wow I must be getting old. I honestly thought it was fresh material.

You've already used the "I'm getting old" excuse too.

[Art Vandelay]

You've already used the "I'm getting old" excuse too.

+1 for the joke
-2 for it being a recycled iteration of a joke you already made!

Sounds like a lot of hearsay and accusations from the esteemed counselors, but very little evidence. I think you need to send Paul Drake to gather some facts and ask Della for some advice before you head into the courtroom.

[Commando]

hmmm

http://thekingoflimbspart2.blogspot.com/

[TripletDaddy]

you are too late. Gracey already pretended to think of this first. It looks like more cut and paste from atease.

also, lol @ this:

The only thing I am not certain on is when we will see the next release. The moon theory seems to be make a lot of sense with the Full Moon reference on the first release. Today is a half moon, so I am still thinking something could happen today.

[MarkGrace]

you are too late. Gracey already pretended to think of this first. It looks like more cut and paste from atease.

also, lol @ this:

No, my theory didn't make the blog.

I still think there's something to the way all the artwork lines up.

I also posted this at greenplastic and later on the front page at atease:

The biggest conspiracy for me just comes from a pracatical standpoint: What the hell happened to all that music they were working on? They’ve been working on this stuff in soundchecks since the IR tour. They’ve spent over a year and a half recording on an off. Thom premiered 8 songs solo on the AFP tour, most of which he was known to be working on with Radiohead — only 2 of them are on this album. One of Phil’s favorite of the new stuff isn’t here (The Present Tense), Thom mentioned that his favorite of the new stuff was Dawn Chorus — which is also not here — and Colin talked about Wake/Ring Me being one of the new songs that was among his favorites.

When Twisted Words was released Jonny said they’d been recording “for a while now” (that was in August of 2009!) and that song was only one of the things they finished in those sessions. They did a solid bit of recording in LA and even held a wrap party for what they completed there. On the IR tour Ed said in an interview that there was “loads” of new stuff. In June Ed said they were weeks away from finishing — that was 8 months ago. Colin wrote his article about finishing “a new batch of songs” over 6 months ago. What the heck have they been doing? All this recording and they came up with 8 tracks, one of which is an interlude (Feral)? 37 minutes of music out of all of that?

Jonny was interviewed on the red carpet at the Norweigan Wood premiere, and when asked about the upcoming album said there would be “ten tracks, maybe a few more.” That’s anywhere from 2-5 more songs than what we got that would have been in consideration.

Again, where did it all go? The appearance of Mr. Magpie — which I don’t think anyone knew they were working on — along with the revisiting of Follow Me Around and I Froze Up suggests they were reaching back and trying to finally finish some of those songs that have been a work in progress for a while now. And, as we know, Nigel has long promised that he was going to force them to sit down and finish stuff that has been in the pile for a while. Couple that with unknown new stuff like Bloom, Little by Little, Feral, Codex, and all the stuff that was premiered by Thom, and I think it’s easy to think that they finished quite a few songs over all these sessions.

When the stuff started piling up, it doesn’t seem out of the question that they decided to split things up in groups and maybe do two releases of relatively equal size (or maybe a series of eps). To me TKOL feels like it could work both as its own release and as part of something bigger. I guess if you believe this though the question then becomes why didn’t they just release it as a double album already? And I would really have no idea.

[TripletDaddy]

you are too late. Gracey already pretended to think of this first. It looks like more cut and paste from atease.

also, lol @ this:

Hey so did anything happen at the half moon last week? Was there another LP released? Was it Jonny's arm/limb? Or maybe Phil's arm/limb?

[MarkGrace]

Hey so did anything happen at the half moon last week? Was there another LP released? Was it Jonny's arm/limb? Or maybe Phil's arm/limb?

Thom is in LA right now. Run down from your office and ask him!

[TripletDaddy]

Thom is in LA right now. Run down from your office and ask him!

I wish I were in LA right now.

I can, however, run down from my office and check out the Delta Center.

[MarkGrace]

I wish I were in LA right now.

I can, however, run down from my office and check out the Delta Center.

I don't imagine Thom is going to visit the Delta Center on the Nigel Godrich 40th Birthday World Tour Extravaganza, and I'd really like some info on what's going on with future releases. Your current situation isn't really working out for me.

[MartyFunkhouser]

I'm listening to this album right now and really like it a lot. Bloom is easily one of my favorite Radiohead songs. Great start to the album.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Alright, I have listened to the whole album now.

DDD is right, I do really like this album but I would certainly not call it a jazz album. It isn't without its jazz influences, but it isn't jazz (and I'm not using the Wynton Marsalis definition of jazz).

37 minutes is pretty much the perfect length for a rock album for me. It is usually right around that point where I get bored and want to throw on some Zorn.

I have great respect for a band that is influenced by Alice Coltrane and can certainly hear that influence in the songs.

I did really like the song Bloom. I'm with MG and also really like Codex. On first listen, I would certainly rank this as one of my favorite Radiohead albums.

[MarkGrace]

Just listened to Jonny's interview with BBC6. It was recorded on Wednesday and this was his comment on the band's current status:

we are recording with Radiohead and rehearsing, playing and making music

I think we'll be getting more music sooner rather than later, whether it's an Amnesiac style follow up or limbs or whatever. Just wish we knew when it was going to happen! Maybe DDD can keep us updated on moon cycles?

[TripletDaddy]

Just listened to Jonny's interview with BBC6. It was recorded on Wednesday and this was his comment on the band's current status:



I think we'll be getting more music sooner rather than later, whether it's an Amnesiac style follow up or limbs or whatever. Just wish we knew when it was going to happen! Maybe DDD can keep us updated on moon cycles?

count the branches/limbs on the album cover. My guess is that there is a clue in that number...maybe a date of a new release, much like the secret encoded number on the back of OK Computer.

[MarkGrace]

count the branches/limbs on the album cover. My guess is that there is a clue in that number...maybe a date of a new release, much like the secret encoded number on the back of OK Computer.

4. I'm still going with 4!