Radiohead Set To Scare Fans On "Terrifying" New Album

More information about the next Radiohead album continues to slowly leak out from frontman Thom Yorke.

Yorke quashed rumours that the record would have major political themes in a recent interview with NME.com.

"It's about that anonymous fear thing, sitting in traffic, thinking, 'I'm sure I'm supposed to be doing something else,'" he said.

"Interestingly enough, it's similar to OK Computer in a way. It's much more terrifying. But OK Computer was terrifying, too — some of the lyrics were."

Up to 16 songs are being considered for inclusion on the follow-up to 2003's Hail To The Thief, including "Nude," "15 Step," "Arpeggi" and "House Of Cards," which Yorke performed solo at the Trade Justice Movement rally in London, England last April.

Blogging, as he so often does in his free-form style, on the Radiohead website, Yorke told fans that the new album is coming along well and the band are quickly readying themselves for a European tour beginning in May.

"listening back to things we are doing and looking through the lyrics today and stuff it feels like we are finally getting somewhere," Yorke wrote.

"there are lots of songs. too many to get together straight away. so we will be furiously rehearsing and writing as we go.

"i think we've always worked best when we arent bothered about making mistakes. theres a lot of baggage about the old way of doing things that is hard to get over... all the 'album' crap... just this level of pressure that is ridiculous... we're just going to do what feels right at the time. quite into the idea of singles at the moment (that dont get on the radio).

"no grand design... wherever we are at. some of the random stuff we have at the moment could be the most exciting... trying to figure out how on earth we will be able to play some of it. anyway it is not important. there is more to life than freaking out about petty bullshit like this. there are more important things to think about."