“‘Wall Of Ice EP’ this Monday, anyone?” – Yes please.

The beginning of My Twisted Words does sound like it is a continuation of a preceding song, especially the way the drums speed up dramatically as the song begins. ALL HAIL RADIOHEAD!!

wowww

O_O

i’m soooo happy..

Anyone else think this is incredibly weird but exciting?

It’s like Radiohead are making the rulebook up as they go along.

We’re all listening to this new tune like it’s a leak by a fan but Radiohead, one of the biggest bands in the world, have probably leaked it themselves!

When you compare this with U2 doing their enormo-tours & boring as hell Blackberry promotions, you know where the real excitement in modern mainstream music is. Go Radiohead!

I’d really like Radiohead to stick with releasing albums. It’s worked all along, and it will still work for them. To change to just releasing singles or EP’s every once in a while would be annoying as a fan.

[Let's all close our eyes and believe the shit out of this until the band HAS to make it true!]

Oh man, this new release (coming out August 17) is gonna be AWE-SOME!!! Thank You Radiohead for making me look forward to a Monday!

I think Radiohead struggle with the “Album” concept. They want to put together a coherent body of work and they struggle with that part.

I also think their idea of an “Album” has prevented a lot of great songs being released (True Love Waits, Follow Me Around, etc.. etc…) Of course it could be they haven’t ‘recorded’ them to their own satisfaction, but it could also be they haven’t tried because TLW won’t “work” on the album their working on at that time.

So releasing EPs could work for both band and fans. It gives the band freedom to release (collections of)songs that wouldn’t work on an “album” and fans get great songs they might not have heard if the band just puts out Albums.

I think Disc2 of In Rainbows was a great example of songs we ‘may’ have missed out on.

Also the way people buy and listen to music is changing. It’s very much pick and choose now. And Album prices and sales are dropping like stones. I think people are much more likely to fork out £3-4 on 4/5 songs (& more often) than the traditional album.

And “special edition albums” are becoming tedious. They used to only be “Special” if they had something to offer. Now people are scraping around to try and “find” something to offer. It’s a bit cart before the horse if you ask me.

So I think a lot of these considerations point to EP releases. People, like it or not, don’t often listen to albums anymore… at least after they become “old” and the tracks well known, except on rare occasions.

How many times do you see on forums a post/topic like “Hey I listened to X album from start to finish for the first time in X months/years and…”

It is now not the norm to listen like this, for right or wrong.

I think the EP/Singles idea also will help save the artist financially as well. Harry patch for example was £1. I bet MOST people bought that with no issues. “what’s a quid”. Of course there will be the odd twat who didn’t. But when you think about it, I bet it’s been quite a few years since I paid £1 for a song!!

Albums in the UK are generally £8 and will generally have 10 or more songs on them. So songs on average are sold for less than £1.

So if EPs are released in this way, then it makes the artist slightly more money if they impose a £1 per song cost. I would rather pay that than try and download something for free. Maybe I’m getting old, but for £1 a song, I’d rather just pay it and get on with my life.

LP

We’re getting punk’d y’all. Nothing’s gonna happen. No lp, no ep, nada, zero.

I’m excited for what Monday wil bring. I”m totally digging the new song though, kinda ominous

yes, this was probably radiohead pulling the strings. but they haven’t been the first to do that. nine inch nails did several of “accidental” leaks for year zero.