{"id":25925,"date":"2016-05-03T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T18:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25925"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T18:16:17","slug":"at-long-last-radiohead-delivers-new-orchestral-song-burn-the-witch-via-official-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-05\/at-long-last-radiohead-delivers-new-orchestral-song-burn-the-witch-via-official-video\/","title":{"rendered":"At Long Last&#8211;Radiohead Delivers New, Orchestral Song &#8220;Burn The Witch&#8221; Via Official Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Radiohead-Burn-The-Witch.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-25929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Radiohead-Burn-The-Witch-600x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Radiohead-Burn-The-Witch\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Radiohead-Burn-The-Witch-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Radiohead-Burn-The-Witch-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Radiohead-Burn-The-Witch-400x400.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Radiohead-Burn-The-Witch.jpeg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohead.com\/deadairspace\"><strong>Radiohead<\/strong><\/a> had been curiously quiet for some time and then over the weekend disappeared completely (at least on social media). \u00a0Today the best-band-in-the-world released a new stop-action video for new\/old song\u00a0<em><strong>Burn the Witch<\/strong><\/em>, which may be the first track released off the band&#8217;s allegedly forthcoming, as-yet-untitled album.\u00a0<em><strong>Burn the Witch<\/strong><\/em> first appeared in 2003 as a part of the artwork of <strong>Radiohead&#8217;s <\/strong><em><strong>Hail to the Thief<\/strong> <\/em>album. The song was later heard in snippets\u00a0live, but not to our knowledge ever played in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>The song and video are ominously dystopian,\u00a0including the opening lyrics &#8220;Stay in the shadows, cheer at the gallows, this is a low-flying panic attack.&#8221; <strong>Thom Yorke<\/strong> and the boys have never been afraid of the real politik and expressing Orwellian concerns, and this song proves it again. What is different is the music, where the band seems to have made good on its promise of something entirely different. \u00a0Gone (on this track at least) are the electronica sounds favored on their most recent recordings, replaced by decidedly analog orchestral strings. <strong>Yorke&#8217;s<\/strong> sonorous vocals thankfully remain the same.<\/p>\n<p>The video was directed by <strong>Chris Hopewell<\/strong> of <strong>Jackknife<\/strong>, the same troop that directed <strong>Radiohead&#8217;s<\/strong> 2003 video for <em><strong>There There\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(watch at bottom for old times&#8217; sake&#8211;a fantastic song still).<\/p>\n<p>The band&#8217;s PR states that the song will be &#8220;available on all digital services&#8221; at midnight (GMT?) tonight.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yI2oS2hoL0k\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7AQSLozK7aA\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiohead had been curiously quiet for some time and then over the weekend disappeared completely (at least on social media). \u00a0Today the best-band-in-the-world released a new stop-action video for new\/old song\u00a0Burn the Witch, which may be the first track released off the band&#8217;s allegedly forthcoming, as-yet-untitled album.\u00a0Burn the Witch first appeared in 2003 as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25931,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25925\/revisions\/25931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}