He is expressing himself in a manner unlike anything else he’s ever done, and to draw yourself away from what people might expect you to bring to the table and freely experiment on untrodden terrain is a brave thing to do when you’ve got 40 years of legacy behind you

Radiohead’s resident enigma returns, spinning Brazilian influences, vintage rocktronica, and sumptuous string arrangements into a much more confident, cohesive follow-up to his 2020 solo debut

The spiritual beacon of Radiohead is the latest in a long line of songwriters to use their art to face the void

Hearing the first taste of Ed O’Brien’s second solo album, Blue Morpho, felt like connecting with a folk fantasia

An artist’s work is their own to paint. Blue Morpho sounds like the beginning of an impressive solo journey for Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien

The guitarist’s album might be the most Radiohead side project yet to emerge from the mother ship, both bombastically bereft and compelling company

‘Blue Morpho’ offers a reminder that, as he and his other bandmates have repeatedly proved, O’Brien boasts a wholly-uninhibited approach to how rock and pop music is arranged, resulting in works that move and grow like the building blocks of life itself

Full of wonder, full of creativity, and possibility, fully realized and here for our delight. Like the album as a whole this is a truly excellent piece. It features lyrics full of thankfulness as we “feel the grace in all of life, thank you for this time.” What a great note to end a special album on

The guitarist’s second solo outing – but first under his actual name – offers mindfulness via a widescreen prog-folk trip

The Radiohead guitarist quilts together the kind of percolating arrangements that define many of his band’s best songs

The Radiohead guitarist quilts together the kind of percolating arrangements that define many of his band’s best songs

Named after the iridescent butterfly he first encountered in Brazil, the album built its foundation in Wales before taking shape in The Church Studios in London. Ed O’Brien delved into his personal findings to echo a sound remarkably universal

The Radiohead guitarist has made an uplifting album whose colours are as bright and striking as the butterfly after which it is named

With Blue Morpho, Ed O’Brien shows he is not afraid to step into the dark and emerge with new approaches and hard-earned wisdom. He plays through the process of confronting his past while offering the possibility of healing