Radiohead recording new album

Experimental rock icons Radiohead are back in the recording studio and "fumbling" about as they decide on the direction for their next album.

Guitarist Jonny Greenwood says they're currently playing and recording.

"It's fun... We've been waiting, all of us, for a long time," he told the BBC's radio service in Oxford, where the band lives.

Greenwood indicated that the album, which would be Radiohead's first since 2011's The King of Limbs, was in the early stages.

"Looking down avenues' is a very kind way of putting the kind of fumbling that we do," he said in the interview on Wednesday.

"Every time we try and do it like the last time, because that worked, it never seems to work. So we talk about different approaches and we're currently trying a bunch out," he said.

Radiohead emerged from the guitar-heavy alternative rock scene of the early 1990s but soon took a more original and electronic turn through seminal albums such as 1997's OK Computer and 2000's Kid A.

Greenwood had earlier this year indicated that Radiohead would return to the studio in late 2014. But the album's fate became less clear when frontman Thom Yorke released a solo album with no warning in September.