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Rolling Stone interview
Rollingstone.com has an interview up with Ed O’Brien & Phil Selway. Here are some bits and pieces.
Ed said what Stanley Donwood thought of the album: “Stanley said a great thing,” O’Brien recalls. “He said, ‘Kid A is like you pick up the phone, you call somebody, and there’s an answering machine on the other end. With Amnesiac, you get through to that person. And you’re engaged in the conversation.”
“There were some tenuous moments,” says Phil Selway with a nervous laugh when asked if Radiohead had been in any danger of breaking up while making the two new albums. “There was this dissatisfaction with the way we used to work, but the new way — using computers more, using sequencers an awful lot — wasn’t producing results.”
“We were quite split for two days,” Selway recalls. “Thom was very into the idea of a double album, of clearing the decks: ‘This is what we’ve been doing for three years, now we want to move on.’ I thought a double album would have been quite unpalatable. People said they had problems with Kid A. Imagine if it had been a double album. I don’t think anyone would have given it a second hearing.” Radiohead decided to issue two single discs. Amnesiac has its share of Kid A-style art games; one song, “Like Spinning Plates,” was built over the backing track of another unreleased song, “I Will,” played backward.
O’Brien declines to make any promises about Radiohead’s future. “What will happen next is not entirely resolved,” he says. “We haven’t been in the studio for a while. We’re not touring this time the way we used to. People have families now.” Yorke became a father on February 6th; he and his girlfriend, Rachel, had a son, Noah. “I don’t want to sound negative,” O’Brien insists. “Things have changed. It’s good. But everything was thrown up in the air two years ago. It’s still settling.”
read it in full here [thanks Espen]
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