Keeping good on his promise from late last year, in an interview on the music show Adam Buxton’s Big Mixtape on BBC Radio, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien said the band will finish their new album in “a matter of weeks” and to look for it later this year.

O’Brien told Buxton the band is in the middle of its studio process, “in the heart of the record,” as he put it, but “the finishing line… it’s in touching distance."

O’Brien also expressed great enthusiasm over the album, their follow-up to 2007’s lauded In Rainbows, in the interview. He said he feels it’s “the best record we ever made.”

Radiohead is also busy with various side projects, most notably drummer Phil Selway’s solo album, Familial, out in August. Frontman Thom Yorke also had a busy spring, touring with Atoms For Peace, his supergroup with Flea, Joey Waronker, Mauro Refosco and producer Nigel Godrich.