As Radiohead’s output has slowed down in their veteran years, fans have started questioning the band’s future. Their last full-length studio release, A Moon Shaped Pool, was released back in 2016, but that doesn’t really mean they’re done because the album before that came after a five-year gap too.

During an interview on the Lineup podcast, bandmember Ed O’Brien addressed these concerns, stating that the band isn’t currently working together and doesn’t have any plans to so for now: “There’s no Radiohead at the moment.”

“It might happen, but the other thing is … it might not,” he said about the possibility of future projects. “And does that matter?”

“There’s a truth to what we do,” he continued. “So we’re not going to be one of those bands that gets together for the big payday.”

“The thing with Radiohead, we could do something in a couple years. We might not,” he added. “But I think what it has to be, it has to be five people going, ‘I really want to do this again with you.’ And I think at the moment, because we’ve done it for so long, we’re all reaching out and having different experiences. And that should be allowed, and that should be encouraged.”

Despite the uncertainty, O’Brien didn’t in any way suggest that the band has broken up, but that they’re all simply focusing on different things at the moment: “It could be that it doesn’t happen. I’m sure it will do. I’m almost certain that it will do. But you’ve got to also be able to be fine with it not happening again.”

Since Radiohead’s last tour in 2018, O’Brien released his debut solo album, Earth, in 2020, and has another album planned for later this year according to Consequence. On other news, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood also put out their debut album as part of a supergroup called the Smile titled A Light for Attracting Attention.

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