Monday, May 2, 2016

Radiohead Is Slowly Erasing Itself From the Internet. Will They Reappear With a New Album?


Radiohead - Creep
Thom Yorke has a secret.

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Whether your late-weekend routine entails reading music blogs, casually browsing the whole of the internet, or compulsively typing Radiohead next album release date into your search engine of choice, you were in for some strange news yesterday: Radiohead has gone missing! Well, sort of. The headlines coalesced around the choicest Radiohead puns (Radiohead have disappeared completely; Radiohead have erased themselves; Radiohead fade out; Not OK, computer!). The articles themselves all delivered the same basic details: Radioheads website is now just a blindingly white page, Radioheads Twitter page is suddenly tweetless, Radioheads Facebook page and Google+ page have gone similarly blank, and frontman Thom Yorke cannot be found for comment. (Band members Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway seem to still be with us, though. Phewfor a minute there ...)

Upping the intrigue was the weekends other weird Radiohead news: On Saturday morning, some of the bands U.K. fans received leaflets in the mail (or in the post, as it were) containing the following cryptic message: Sing the song of sixpence that goes/ BURN THE WITCH/ We know where you live. And as the most fervent of Radiohead-heads will tell you, Burn the Witch is the rumored title of one of Radioheads many long-gestating, as-yet-unreleased tracks.

So, what does it all mean? Lets break it down: Theres a tour starting in less than three weeks. Theres probably an album coming soonish. There might be a single coming even sooner. But beyond that, well just have to wait and see. Despite what they might claim, Radiohead loves surprises.

Source: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/05/02/radiohead_erased_its_internet_presence_sunday_and_prompted_a_whole_lot_of.html

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