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06-13-2003, 04:57 PM
X-clusive: Is This The Last Radiohead Album?
Speaking to Xfm, Thom Yorke has hinted that ‘Hail To The Thief’ may be the last full album Radiohead will make, with the singer preferring more low key output’s for his band in the future.
In an interview with Xfm’s John Kennedy for the X-posure show, Yorke has hinted that while Radioheads new album is predominately a live, full band affair the future will probably see them moving into heavier electronic music.
“We deliberately spent a long time preparing,” he says of recording ‘Hail To The Thief’, “And we got into the ideas of performance at the same time as using a lot of electronics, so all the computer techniques had to occur there and then. It’s something we’re getting very heavily into. So you’d prepare the computers for all eventualities and you’d go with them. It’s a very acoustic record this one, but I’ve found out that we can do all this loud stuff with computers which is the direction I think we’ll take.”
It also seems that Yorke is frustrated with the confines of the traditional album format, possibly provoking a move to just releasing EPs in the future.
“When you’re finishing a record, you have to confront the idea of what it’s called, and there’s no getting away from the fact that people are gonna be reacting in such a way.” Yorke continued, “I think next I’d love to just do EPs ‘cos I’ve had enough of this whole album thing and that sort of level of pressure and scrutiny and the way that it works in the music business.”
In another interview in the Toronto Star yesterday (June 12), the singer reiterated his feelings.
"I don't know what [the focus in the future] would be musically, but if we were to pursue this idea of EPs, if you have, say, four tracks, you can do something coherent in a different way with four tracks than you can do with a record, where you're sort of paranoid about how things will go together. If it's four tracks, that's license to explore that one area for one EP and another idea for another EP. And that's what excites me.”
Though if it new material from the band does surface, we might not even know it’s Radiohead – though it may mark the end of the band too.
"I'm into the idea of releasing things [where] maybe people just don't know who it is and stuff like that," he continued, "I don't know. Maybe it dies like that."
For an exclusive track-by-track commentary of ‘Hail To The Thief' by Yorke, as well as exclusive interviews, competitions and a full playback of the album itself, check out Xfm Online’s Radiohead Special by clicking here (http://www.xfm.co.uk/webClient?guid=57053&site=xfm&rs=xfm).
Xfm article (http://www.xfm.co.uk/webClient?guid=57357)
Speaking to Xfm, Thom Yorke has hinted that ‘Hail To The Thief’ may be the last full album Radiohead will make, with the singer preferring more low key output’s for his band in the future.
In an interview with Xfm’s John Kennedy for the X-posure show, Yorke has hinted that while Radioheads new album is predominately a live, full band affair the future will probably see them moving into heavier electronic music.
“We deliberately spent a long time preparing,” he says of recording ‘Hail To The Thief’, “And we got into the ideas of performance at the same time as using a lot of electronics, so all the computer techniques had to occur there and then. It’s something we’re getting very heavily into. So you’d prepare the computers for all eventualities and you’d go with them. It’s a very acoustic record this one, but I’ve found out that we can do all this loud stuff with computers which is the direction I think we’ll take.”
It also seems that Yorke is frustrated with the confines of the traditional album format, possibly provoking a move to just releasing EPs in the future.
“When you’re finishing a record, you have to confront the idea of what it’s called, and there’s no getting away from the fact that people are gonna be reacting in such a way.” Yorke continued, “I think next I’d love to just do EPs ‘cos I’ve had enough of this whole album thing and that sort of level of pressure and scrutiny and the way that it works in the music business.”
In another interview in the Toronto Star yesterday (June 12), the singer reiterated his feelings.
"I don't know what [the focus in the future] would be musically, but if we were to pursue this idea of EPs, if you have, say, four tracks, you can do something coherent in a different way with four tracks than you can do with a record, where you're sort of paranoid about how things will go together. If it's four tracks, that's license to explore that one area for one EP and another idea for another EP. And that's what excites me.”
Though if it new material from the band does surface, we might not even know it’s Radiohead – though it may mark the end of the band too.
"I'm into the idea of releasing things [where] maybe people just don't know who it is and stuff like that," he continued, "I don't know. Maybe it dies like that."
For an exclusive track-by-track commentary of ‘Hail To The Thief' by Yorke, as well as exclusive interviews, competitions and a full playback of the album itself, check out Xfm Online’s Radiohead Special by clicking here (http://www.xfm.co.uk/webClient?guid=57053&site=xfm&rs=xfm).
Xfm article (http://www.xfm.co.uk/webClient?guid=57357)