Radiohead Puts Studio Time on Hold

Update: Turns out that upcoming Radiohead album may not be quite as upcoming as we thought.

Entertainment Weekly‘s Music Mix reports that Radiohead drummer Phil Selway said the band has put their work in the studio on hold for a bit. "We keep on hitting those points where you think, ’We’re there’," Selway told EW.com. “And then you think, ‘No, it’s not’. We’re having a break from it at the moment… and then we’ll come back to it later in the summer and see where we are.”

Selway wouldn’t reveal a release date for the album, but did say, “We like where we are so far.”

Last month, Ed O’Brien told BBC Radio host Adam Buxton that the band’s eighth studio album would be done “in a matter of weeks.” Um, JK, LOL?

(via Digital Spy)

Original story from June 21 below:

If a horse at the Kentucky Derby and Amanda Palmer’s ukulele covers album are just not enough Radiohead for you in 2010, you’re in luck.

Keeping good on his promise from late last year, in an interview on the music show Adam Buxton’s Big Mixtape on BBC Radio, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien said the band will finish their new album in “a matter of weeks” and to look for it later this year.

O’Brien told Buxton the band is in the middle of its studio process, “in the heart of the record,” as he put it, but “the finishing line… it’s in touching distance."

O’Brien also expressed great enthusiasm over the album, their follow-up to 2007’s lauded In Rainbows, in the interview. He said he feels it’s “the best record we ever made.”

Radiohead is also busy with various side projects, most notably drummer Phil Selway’s solo album, Familial, out in August. Frontman Thom Yorke also had a busy spring, touring with Atoms For Peace, his supergroup with Flea, Joey Waronker, Mauro Refosco and producer Nigel Godrich.

Consequence of Sound has the Ed O’Brien interview up in its entirety and you can listen here.

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