New Radiohead album 'finished in weeks'

Ed O'Brien has confirmed that the recording of Radiohead's eighth studio album has nearly been completed.

The guitarist told BBC 6 Music that work on the follow-up to 2007's In Rainbows was almost finished and that the group had worked in a "different spirit" to that album, one whose three-year recording was "the end of Radiohead Mark II".

O'Brien said: "It's genuinely exciting, it's very different to what we did last time. It's just really nice to be doing this. It's so good to be making music with the band that you feel is still as good as it's ever been.

"Making records has been hard - it's always been a slog. Traditionally, Radiohead in the studio has been, 'Don your tin helmet, get in their and just see it out'. it's kind of like a war of attrition."

He added: "For ages and ages it seems like the finishing line is miles away, and now it feels its in touching distance. But of course, it being a creative process, it's like anything.

"You have bursts of energy and you achieve a lot in a certain small period amount of time and then something things slow down and you're nearly there... Yeah, hopefully it's going to be a matter of weeks."