New Thom Yorke solo album coming in 2026, says Ed O'Brien

ACL Music Festival 2016 - Weekend 1 Ed O'Brien and Thom Yorke of Radiohead perform in concert during the Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park on September 30, 2016 in Austin, Texas. (Gary Miller/FilmMagic) (Gary Miller/FilmMagic)

By Josh Johnson

March 23, 2026 at 3:00 pm EDT

Thom Yorke will be releasing a new solo album in 2026, if his Radiohead bandmate Ed O'Brien is to be believed.

"Thom's got a solo album that's gonna come out later in the year, I think," O'Brien tells the Kyle Meredith with... podcast.

Yorke put out his last record, Tall Tales, in 2025 in collaboration with electronic musician Mark Pritchard. He also put out a single called "Dialing In" for the Apple TV series Smoke.

O'Brien, meanwhile, is releasing a new solo album called Blue Morpho on May 22. It's the sophomore follow-up to his 2020 solo debut, Earth.

Radiohead's most recent album remains 2016's A Moon Shaped Pool. The band returned to the live stage in 2025 for their first tour since 2018. As O'Brien said in a previous interview, Radiohead plans to play 20 shows each year on a different continent beginning in 2027.

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