While Ed O’Brien confirmed Radiohead plan to reconvene for more touring starting in 2027, the band’s members appear to be sending this year focused on their own individual projects. O’Brien has a new solo album called Blue Morpho arriving on May 22nd, while bandmate Jonny Greenwood recently announced his own new project with composer Shye Ben Tzur and The Rajasthan Express called Ranjha, also due out in May.
Now, in a new interview with Kyle Meredith, O’Brien revealed that Thom Yorke also has a solo album “coming out later in the year.”
“What’s so lovely is it feels they both can coexist,” O’Brien said, speaking of the member’s various solo ventures and Radiohead itself. “The Radiohead thing can go out and tour—and that’s the mothership, I guess, for all of us. But we’ve got these little satellites. You know, there’s The Smile, and there’s—Thom’s got a solo album that’s going to come out later in the year, I think. And Jonny’s got his stuff, and you know, Philip [Selway]’s got his stuff, and Colin [Greenwood]’s playing with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.”
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The project would mark Yorke’s fourth solo affair, following 2006’s The Eraser, 2014’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, and 2019’s Anima. In recent years, the Radiohead frontman also composed the soundtrack for the film Confidenza and collaborated with electronic musician Mark Pritchard on the album Tall Tales, in addition to his work with The Smile alongside Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner.
Check out O’Brien’s full conversation with Meredith below, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Radiohead guitarist also previewed his upcoming solo album and shared why Radiohead’s recent live comeback “was my favorite tour we’ve ever done.”
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