Radiohead LP9: Everything we know so far about the new album

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Thom YorkeImage source, Getty Images

So Radiohead are back with two new videos, an album on the way AND their new songs are going to be on Spotify.

The upcoming record has been codenamed LP9 by fans and is the follow-up to 2011's top 10 album, The King of Limbs.

They announced their return with silence, wiping their website, Twitter and Facebook pages clean.

After teasing fans with what looks like a freaky version of '60s kids animation Trumpton, the band revealed the fvideo for new song Burn the Witch, external.

A few days after, they released the video, external a second new track called Daydreaming.

But it all raises more questions about what exactly Oxford's finest paranoid androids are up to.

We've pieced together some of the best theories and hard facts on the band's current movements, the new single, video and when exactly fans might expect a new album.

Radiohead posted a series of stop frame animations like this on Twitter and Instagram, external

So what's the album called?

Burn the Witch? The first track to premiere from the new album.

Dead Air Space? The title at the top of their website since they posted the new track.

Many fans seem certain the new album will be titled Dawn Chorus, based on the business-minded band registering new company Dawn Chorus LP in January.

See Niall Doherty from Q Mag's tweet: Umm, I just got this in the post from Radiohead. Is the new album called Burn The Witch?, external

Fuel was added to the fire when the band kicked off their social media blackout (well, they were never what you might consider online chatterboxes) on the first Sunday of May.

That's International Dawn Chorus Day, a celebration of early morning birdsong - not a popular one with people who suffer from insomnia.

Other suggestions tossed into the ring? Sing The Song of Sixpence and We Know Where You Live.

They're the words on the postcards sent to fans who ordered merchandise on the Radiohead website.

When is it out?

Thom YorkeImage source, Getty Images

Soon - on 8 May to be exact.

The band's world tour starts at the end of May where they will take in three night at London's Roundhouse venue, and the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona.

Fans will be hoping for time to get familiar with new material before those dates.

Despite failing to officially name the album, they tweeted the release date at the same time as revealing Daydreaming.

See Radiohead's tweet: Radiohead/Paul Thomas Anderson "Daydreaming" http://x-l.co/RHdayV , external

Who else is involved?

It's business as usual for Radiohead on album number nine, having worked once again with producer Nigel Godrich on the new record.

Thom YorkeImage source, AFP/Getty Images

Artist Stanley Donwood has been responsible for Radiohead's iconic artwork since The Bends in 1995 and he returns once again to work on the artwork for Burn the Witch and the new album.

Better still, he has also heard the record.

"It's a work of art," he told DIY, external, after listening to an unfinished version of the album.

What's that video all about?

Think the Burn The Witch video is dark and disturbing?

The clip was in fact commissioned to show the lighter side of Radiohead's new album, and the woman who made the clip has more knowledge than most about the new record.

Philip SelwayImage source, Getty Images

"They wanted the video to contrast with what they're playing and to wake people up a bit," Yorkshire animator Virpi Kettu told Billboard magazine, external.

She said that the video's goal was to highlight "blaming of different people... the blaming of Muslims and the negativity".

Virpi suggests the video, and song title, are a critique of the current refugee crisis in Europe.

But we thought you hated Spotify and YouTube, Thom?

Lead singer Thom Yorke has criticised streaming a lot, and the future of online music in general, and it's clear that his opinion fed into this month's decision to reject social media in favour of sending individual cards to fans in the post.

"I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry," Thom Yorke told Mexico's Sopitas in 2013.

He also called Spotify "the last desperate fart of a dying corpse".

Oh and he compared YouTube to the Nazis.

Despite those comments, Burn the Witch is now streaming on Spotify, which will come as a huge relief to the owners of Radiohead's management.

This prayer, and that of countless Radiohead fans with a Spotify subscription, has indeed been answered.

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