Radiohead Do Not Have a 'Second New Album' Up Their Sleeves - Spinner

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Always one to revel in the art of a good surprise,Radioheadkinda ambushed the music industry -- again -- this past February when they announced their latest album, 'The King of Limbs,' would be released at the end of that week. Few saw it coming and, yet, in the limited hours between the announcement and its release, rumors already ran rampant that the band had a second new album up their sleeve. No such luck though, according to guitaristEd O'Brien(pictured). Perhaps that would've just been too...predictable.

The guitarist toldBBC 6 Musicthat, naturally, they have the usual outtakes, demos and scraps of songs that never made it to the latest album's final tracklist."But there's not like seven or eight finished songs waiting in the wings to be released now, or in the autumn, or something,"said O'Brien.

Radiohead will, however, release two tracks from the current song cycle -- 'The Butcher' and 'Supercollider' -- as a special limited-edition vinyl forRecord Store Day. But that's just as much to promote your local record shop, in the spirit of the holiday, as it is to release unused material from the 'King of Limbs' sessions.

"When we start a new record, we tend to start fresh,"claims O'Brien. Um...pardon the pun, but guess he forgot about 'Amnesiac?'

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