Uncertainty about the future is inevitable, but not knowing what will happen with Radiohead is the kind of thing you can lose sleep over. After reports that the band — which was not a thing "at the moment" last summer — were going to "get together" early this year to discuss ideas for what's next, drummer Philip Selway has drawn out a loose future-tense timeline that involves a release "of some sort" within the "next couple of years."
In a new interview with Prog Magazine [via Music News], the newest Lanterns on the Lake member revealed that the Radiohead conversation remains ongoing.
"We're always talking about stuff," Selway said. "But in terms of an actual kind of collective project, beyond the Kid A and Amnesiac stuff that we've been doing [2021's Kid A MNESIA project], it's kind of further down the line for us when that will happen."
He continued, "We're talking about that, but at the moment everybody's doing their own thing," he said, having just released Strange Dance — his first solo album in nine years — after Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood's the Smile took the music world (and Exclaim!'s year-end best albums list) by storm in 2022 with A Light for Attracting Attention.
"When the pandemic happened, we'd always planned to take a veer off from Radiohead around that, so we could get on with other stuff," the drummer said." But that just meant that those other projects kind of grew, so we're allowing time for all of those projects to go where they need to."
Selway added, "But yeah, we'll get together soon and in the next couple of years there will be something there, of some sort."
For the sake of humanity, it will hopefully involve a collaboration with Ice Spice.
Radiohead's most recent album is still 2016's A Moon Shaped Pool, and this continues to be their most extended break between record cycles.
In a new interview with Prog Magazine [via Music News], the newest Lanterns on the Lake member revealed that the Radiohead conversation remains ongoing.
"We're always talking about stuff," Selway said. "But in terms of an actual kind of collective project, beyond the Kid A and Amnesiac stuff that we've been doing [2021's Kid A MNESIA project], it's kind of further down the line for us when that will happen."
He continued, "We're talking about that, but at the moment everybody's doing their own thing," he said, having just released Strange Dance — his first solo album in nine years — after Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood's the Smile took the music world (and Exclaim!'s year-end best albums list) by storm in 2022 with A Light for Attracting Attention.
"When the pandemic happened, we'd always planned to take a veer off from Radiohead around that, so we could get on with other stuff," the drummer said." But that just meant that those other projects kind of grew, so we're allowing time for all of those projects to go where they need to."
Selway added, "But yeah, we'll get together soon and in the next couple of years there will be something there, of some sort."
For the sake of humanity, it will hopefully involve a collaboration with Ice Spice.
Radiohead's most recent album is still 2016's A Moon Shaped Pool, and this continues to be their most extended break between record cycles.
