Radiohead - Burn The Witch

Radiohead - Burn The Witch

New Single

After two days of fading websites, deleted tweets, creepy postcards being sent to fans and all the internet hype you could want, Radiohead have finally put forward a new single.

Burn The Witch is the latest single from the Oxford band, being the first off their ninth album, Dawn Chorus. A haunting orchestral piece that seems uplifting, but with eerie undertones, Burn The Witch is a four minute epic, building to an unsettling climactic ending.

This is no ode to a tree, instead Radiohead have returned to their old ways of playing on our paranoia, with such uplifting lyrics such as "Avoid all eye contact / Do not react / Shoot the messenger". Tense pizzicato strings highlight that this is "a low flying panic attack."

The video is a cheery cross between Wallace & Gromit and The Wicker Man (the 1973 original that is - not the Nicholas Cage remake). With pretty pastel colours and gallows, the video is as essential as the song it compliments.

Do your soul a favour and listen to this song below