The song has been circling in the band’s archives for over a decade and is finally seeing the light of day, ahead of their as-yet-untitled ninth album, due imminently.
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The last known cyber connection from Thom Yorke, the frontman of the group, made was a response via Twitter to ensure fans he’s “as f-ked off as you are” about an apparent difficulty in buying Radiohead concert tickets. We were able to access the old tweets via Internet Archive, but we had no luck with the Instagram and Facebook pages.
The Oxfordshire band fuelled speculation about a new release by deleting their online history on Sunday.
The music video, directed by Chris Hopewell features stop animation to accompany the ethereal and somehow simultaneously complex and minimalist sounds from the accomplished British band.
Over the weekend, the band not only sent out ominous “Burn The Witch” leaflets to fans, but their website gradually started to fade before disappearing, along with the band erasing all previous presence from Facebook and Twitter. The band re-emerged on the internet early Tuesday morning with a new Instagram account, where they shared a few claymation videos.
According to Pitchfork, the band had teased its listeners in live performance with chords from “Burn the Witch” as far back as 2006, and on Saturday, some United Kingdom fans of the band received postcards that somewhat creepily read, “Sing a song of sixpence that goes / Burn the Witch / We know where you live”. Yorke personally handed out copied of a Radiohead “newspaper” at a London record store to promote “King of Limbs” in 2011.
Is this black spodge Radiohead’s new album artwork? The group will begin a world tour this month with two dates in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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