A visit to Radiohead.com still offers viewers a blank page, while the band’s Facebook page and Twitter feed feature only a link to the Instagram post. “Is the new album called Burn The Witch?” tweeted Niall Doherty, reviews editor at music magazine Q. Wouldn’t you know it: just before going on tour is a great time to release a new album!
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Well, the group did downplay rumours that the album was coming in June…
Other evidence points to this being some sort of album pre-release plan too, with the band registering new companies in early January/February this year, a common tactic for the band when it came to previous album releases. I might be wrong, but it looks like we’ll soon have everything in its right place once again, as teaser videos and a new song creep online. “Burn The Witch” is the first taste of the first Radiohead album since “The King of Limbs” in 2011.
The British quartet behind hits like “Creep” and “Paranoid Android” just wiped their world-famous band, Radiohead, from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. The “burn the witch” lyric is part of a 13-year-old song that has never been released or performed in full, Rolling Stone noted. You never see the final demise of the man, but it seems doubtful that Radiohead will be turning into The Fire Brigade Band. The leaflet’s release also coincided with Walpurgisnacht – or “Witches’ Night” – in Germany, as well as International Dawn Chorus Day. Perhaps most famously, Radiohead sold “In Rainbows” with a “pay what you’d like” model, making themselves the first major band to do so.
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They’re really not giving much away but the bird appears intermittently on the band’s official website, Dead Air Space, alongside an abstract black and white shape (pictured below). Lastly, Thom Yorke’s recent project, “Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes”, can be downloaded from BitTorrent for free.
