Radiohead: Predicting Every Track On The New Album
The LP9 hype is real.
After a four year break from touring, Radiohead are booked to play festivals all over the world this year. Naturally, speculation is high that a new album is on the way to accompany these shows. The thing is, they're an unpredictable bunch. Their last album, 2011's The King of Limbs, was announced just five days before release. The album before that, 2007's In Rainbows, was one of the first pay-what-you-want albums. You could literally pay nothing for it if you wanted to. In 2014 lead singer Thom Yorke released his second solo album, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, as the first ever paid download on BitTorrent. He also announced it the same day it was released. At this point, we have no idea when (or how) the band will drop the new album on us. For all we know, it's coming out tomorrow, for free, through Limewire. But when they do release their albums, Radiohead also have a history of bringing back unreleased songs that are years - even decades - old, and reworking them into something wholly different and beautiful. Nude, a track from In Rainbows, dates back to the mid/late '90s but didn't see an official release until 2007. Clearly the band like to tease us with songs way in advance, so here are 13 unreleased tracks that could finally find a home on the new album.