Radiohead Recording 'Noisy And Chaotic' New Album

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Radiohead have begun work on their "noisy and chaotic" new album, bassist Colin Greenwood revealed this week. The band's eighth studio album will be recorded with producer Nigel Godrich.

"We just went in last week [and] it was really good," Greenwood told BBC 6 Music. "It was very noisy and chaotic, and really fun ... We're at the stage where we've got the big Lego box out, we've tipped it out on the floor and we're thinking, what next?"

Godrich has produced every Radiohead album since 1997's OK Computer, and is often considered the "sixth member" of the band. "Nigel [has the] ability to make [everything] sound vaguely plausible," Greenwood said. "He can take anything, whether it is an old hi-fi unit or four or five people in a band, and he'll try and make it work one way or another. I totally love and respect him for that."

Greenwood also had good things to say about Radiohead's recent visit to South America, where they were touring with Kraftwerk. Kraftwerk "are one of our musical heroes," he said. "Their melodies sort of seep into your brain and stay there." Asked if Radiohead might ever collaborate with them, he replied with wonder. "They are up at the top of the mountain!"

Radiohead's only scheduled dates in the UK are the Reading and Leeds festivals, where Greenwood hopes the show will be "darker and louder" – literally – than usual. "It's been a bit frustrating at some of the festivals, and some of our own shows last year, that it was light," he said. "For the first 45 minutes of the show you could see our lighting designer slumped over his console. Considering how bright the lights are and how much work you put into it, it was a shame."

As for the release of album number eight, Greenwood can't say whether the In Rainbows pay-what-you-want model will be repeated. "We've got lots of ideas, but we won't decide until we finish the thing," he said. "It is all up in the air, but it's good. It was all up in the air last time, and that was what was exciting – it was all on the hoof."