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Jun 22, 2010 By Hong Le Radiohead

Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien appeared on Adam Buxton’s radio show on BBC 6 Music and stated in the interview that the band are currently in the studio finishing up album number eight. Of course, he isn’t exactly sure on the date of the release, but is hopeful that it will come out by the end of this year: “Ideally it would be great if it came out sometime this year,” O’Brien told Buxton. “It has got to. I hope so. We’re at the finishing line. When you’re making a record, a film, write a book for ages and ages you think the finishing line is miles away. Now it feels it’s in touching distance. But of course, it being a creative process, at the last bit also, you have bursts of energy, you achieve a lot of things in a small period of time and then you’re nearly there…it might slow down. But yeah, hopefully it will be a matter of weeks.”

In the interview, O’Brien also said that working on In Rainbows was not a fun experience: “It wasn’t fun making the record. Making records has been hard. It’s always been a slog. Traditionally Radiohead in a studio has been: Don your tin helmet, just see it out, like a war of attrition. And basically at the end of In Rainbows it had taken three years to sort of come together…. But, oh man…that [In Rainbows] was a slog. It was a really long process. At the end, for instance a song like ‘House Of Cards’ has been recorded six times. Plus the fact: we had this genius idea in 2006 to go on tour and do 50 odd shows, play all these songs, go back to studio and record them. And that’s when we went back in with [producer] Nigel [Godrich]. We went in and recorded them having played these songs 50 times. So we kind of got the arrangements sorted. We just wanted to get them down. We played these enough. And we got them down and most of them were rubbish. A lot of work in the creative process is rubbish.”

Listen to the entire interview here.

(Via: BBC 6 Music)

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