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Radiohead Prepare New Material While Pining for Old Order

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Three years on from the revolutionary digital release of 'In Rainbows' -- when fans paid what they thought was appropriate -- Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood has revealed not only that the band have completed a new set of songs, but that he also misses the music industry of old.

Writing on Index on Censorship, Greenwood said, "We have just finished another group of songs and have begun to wonder about how to release them in a digital landscape that has changed again."

He continued, "It seems to have become harder to own music in the traditional way, on a physical object like a CD, and instead music appears the poor cousin of software, streamed or locked into a portable device like a phone or iPod."

For all his enthusiasm for the internet and the digital distribution of music, Greenwood admitted that he pines for the music business of old.

"I understand that we have become our own broadcasters and distributors," he said. "But I miss the editorialisation of music, the curatorial influences of people like John Peel or a good record label. I liked being on a record label that had us on it, along with Blur, Beastie Boys and the Beatles."

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John Wichmann

Which station?

January 06 2011 at 6:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply