Radiohead drops a new song with a video, titled “Burn the Witch”. The clip was helmed by seasoned video director Chris Hopewell, whose previous credits include work with Scissor Sisters, Franz Ferdinand, the Knife, and the Offspring.
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Now it seems clear that the flyers, at the very least, were signaling the release of the new song. Though no album has been officially announced, Radiohead’s unusual activity in the last few months have hinted that the band’s ninth studio album is coming soon.
Radiohead has had a history of releasing albums in nontraditional ways.
Peter Wafzig/Redferns via Getty ImagesSunday, Radiohead’s online social media footprint all but disappeared, with all of the posts on English rockers’ Facebook and Twitter accounts deleted, and its website also blank. In 2011, vocalist Thom Yorke dressed as a newsboy and handed out Radiohead newspapers in line with their “Kings of Limbs” album launch.
Radiohead has released a song from its new album through its social media networks.
“Burn the Witch” dates as far back as 2003, when the phrase appeared in the artwork of Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief.
They are part of a world tour that will also see the quintet play in Amsterdam, Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Mexico City.
This comes just a day after fans of the band received flyers with the words “Sing a song of sixpence that goes/Burn the Witch/We know where you live”.
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And a recent solo project by Yorke was released on the file-sharing service BitTorrent. On the other hand, their 2007 release, “In Rainbows”, was launched as a “pay what you want” download.
