New Music: Blue Morpho

           

Former Radiohead's Ed O'Brien is back with "Blue Morpho". Now O’Brien is reframing that uncertainty as creative freedom. Writing the album meant confronting the weight of coming from what he calls a “place of extraordinary musicianship and extraordinary songwriting” — and choosing, consciously, to let it go. It’s a mindset that aligns with the album’s nature-driven themes, though the real arc here is internal. If Earth was about searching for footing, Blue Morpho finds O’Brien more willing to trust his instincts — and to follow them wherever they lead. That includes new tools. Among them: the Circle Guitar, a MIDI-controlled, self-strumming electric guitar he says he’s been “longing to find” — and one that may yet shape the sound of his next chapter. The visuals ared under direction by Kit Monteith