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Thom Yorke debuted what could possibly be two new songs for Radiohead's upcoming new album. The frontman creeped the tracks into his set in Paris last week and videoed evidence suggests that these are songs for Radiohead's ninth studio album.
Yorke was playing a solo acoustic set for Pathway To Paris last week. The organisation coincided this performance with the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris with performances from Thom Yorke, Patti Smith and Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers. During Yorke's performance it would seem that he played two unheard songs which may end up on the currently untitled Radiohead album.
Evidence number one: the songs sounds distinctly Radiohead-y. Okay, not the strongest case, but with the sound of Thom's solo work on his albums The Eraser, and more recently Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, the songs have never sounded as linear as these. Evidence number two: during the performance of 'Silent Spring', Yorke takes a breath to announce (02:28 on the video below) that the guitar part he's missing out is "Jonny's bit, which I can't play". How's that for strong evidence?
Watch footage of Thom Yorke possibly performing two new Radiohead songs below
The last we heard from the Radiohead album, it is mostly finished. Fans jumped the gun in October with the news that the album was done and dusted, the rumours of which were aggressively dispelled by Yorke and Jonny Greenwood on Twitter.
Drummer Philip Selway said back in the summer that the band wanted to finish the album in the Autumn and that they were 'launching themselves into the recording'. We definitely won't see any new material in 2015, but we can rest easy knowing that there is a new Radiohead album in the pipeline and it will be with us soon enough.
