Radiohead finish recording new album…so far
If you don’t know by now, I’m a sucker for Radiohead news since they’re my favorite band. So I was quite pleased to come across this story.
Our blog brothers at Consequence Of Sound came across this article (via OneThirtyBPM) that Radiohead have finished working on their eighth album at a Hollywood Hills mansion turned recording studio.
The band worked at that location for the past three weeks with producer/unofficial member of Radiohead Nigel Godrich and engineer Bryan Cook. L.A. Times contributor Jia-Rui Cook gained access to the band’s final night of recording and posted this observation.
Bryan helped transform a house in the Hollywood Hills into a recording studio and spent the last three weeks there recording Radiohead with Nigel Godrich. On Saturday, we waded through a driveway full of Priuses and Minis to get to the wrap party. I was giddy seeing Beck, Selma Hayek and Danger Mouse chatting around the same pool where Dean Martin and the Rat Pack used to hang out. I marveled at the hair on one rock star that resembled one of those fuzzy boom mic covers. How exactly did he describe what he wanted to his hairdresser? I guess it was just proof rock stars can get away with stuff regular folks can’t. Thom Yorke periodically toyed with the iPhone that controlled the speakers. Usually he skipped forward to a Rolling Stones song. The band wanted to record in L.A. to get away from the dismal English winter. Nigel said they were probably lolling about too much in the sunshine when they first arrived. When it started pouring down, they realized someone up there was telling them to get on with it. If their last album was “In Rainbows,” I guess they could call this one “In Rainstorms.”
The last time Radiohead recorded in the City of Angels, we got the album Hail To The Thief. Not a bad album at all but it’s definitely not one of my favorites. Personally, I think the band works better in dismal weather but who am I to deny Thom Yorke his dose of California sun?
Here’s hoping the band releases the new album this year. I don’t have to hope that it’s good…they always seem to get that part down.
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