Jonny Greenwood says Radiohead have changed their method again

Radiohead have changed their method again for the follow-up to The King of Limbs, Jonny Greenwood has told India's The Sunday Guardian. The couple of months of recording they have done so far have gone very well, he says, and while the method is too involved to explain, the band are working within limits. It's like we're trying to use very old and very new technology together to see what happens.⁵

They left the record in a good place when they last stopped, and the next step is to hear what they have. We haven't listened to anything back yet, so at the moment we're all very happy.⁵ Phil Selway said earlier this month that the band go back to it in March.

Greenwood spoke at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, which the Maharaja has let them use. He has been living there for nearly three weeks, making an album with the Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur and 12 Indian musicians. The paper calls the music a mix of Arabic, Indian and western. On 13 February they played their first concert, at the World Sacred Spirit Festival in the fort. Greenwood thought the songs sounded a little under-rehearsed, since they had only been playing them to record them.

What struck him was how the Indian players keep going. when they take a break, they go and play more. That's not true in England. We just take a break.⁵ One of the dholak players is 16, and Greenwood says he learned a lot just watching him. This is his third visit to India, and he would be very happy for Radiohead to play there, though he didn't know where or for whom.

Asked whether he had traded his old Telecaster for a Gibson Les Paul, he said they all sound the same. guitars are like typewriters. It's technology, it's not something to be admired or worshipped.⁵