As one of the five members making up Radiohead, Ed O’Brien thought he’d scratched every musical itch he could have had strumming guitar for the legendary British art-rockers.But close to a decade ago, in between 2011’s The King of Limbs and 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool, he started to feel something was missing.“With all the amazing stuff I’ve been able to do as part of Radiohead, I realized there was a little bit of a hole.
But I didn’t know what it was and I couldn’t understand why I wasn’t feeling fulfilled,” he says in a phone interview from the U.K.Decamped to Brazil, where he has lived periodically throughout the years, he started sketching out musical ideas in 2013 that would form the spine for Earth, his debut solo LP released under the