Music has long been associated with therapy, but Ed O’Brien took it to another level on his second solo album Blue Morpho – the first released under his own name. It’s the result of a battle with depression that led to the Radiohead guitarist experiencing a complete transformation, as he tells Prog.
Despite the drop in temperature in Austin, Texas, Ed O’Brien speaks with a warmth and candour that’s at once disarming yet utterly compelling. At the top of the agenda is the Radiohead guitarist’s tunningly beautiful second solo album Blue Morpho. It represents so much more than simply another release – for this is a reckoning, a shedding of skin and a profound rebirth.
