Apparently, No New Radiohead Album in 2007
But! Radiohead art collected in Stanley Donwood book
Read it and weep if you must. But yes, according to a
Teletext report, and despite rampant speculation, a
Radiohead UK PR person has claimed that the band won't release its latest magnum opus until 2008. (A U.S. rep neither confirmed nor denied this).
Really though, with August already halfway out the window, 2008 isn't such a long ways off, is it now? And, to tide you over for the wait,
Verso Books is set to re-publish the
Stanley Donwood/Dr. Tchock art book
Dead Children Playing.
Originally pressed in 2006 and sharing its name with a Donwood art exhibit, this full-color tome collects the era-defining visuals that have accompanied Radiohead's music from
The Bends through
Hail to the Thief. The eerie, paranoid creations of Donwood and Tchock (perhaps better known as Thom Yorke) fill this hardcover book's 80-odd pages-- everything from album covers to promo art to assorted sketches to that grim cartoon/comic that came hidden behind the CD tray in early copies of
Kid A.
This, the first Verso edition, will hit bookshelves October 17.
In other Radiohead news, ask Jonny Greenwood why the hell he named his
award-winning orchestral composition
Popcorn Superhet Receiver when the piece
makes its U.S. debut January 16 and 17, as part of the Wordless Music Series.
Video: Radiohead: Pyramid Song [from the Amnesiac LP]