Video for 'Lotus Flower' from The King of Limbs (named after a spooky tree in Wiltshire's Savernake Forest) their new album --- which is due online today. With eight tracks, and just over thirty-seven minutes of music, The King of Limbs is Radiohead's shortest album to date.

Produced and Directed by Garth Jennings
Choreographed by Wayne McGregor
Director of Photography- Nick Wood
Editor- Leila Sarraf

Two weeks ago, nobody really even knew a new Radiohead album was going to exist, and yet here it is. From what I can gather the new release continues to play out the drama between human imagination and artificial intelligence that has driven Radiohead since at least OK Computer, though perhaps more on a compositional level than as a conceptual thematic on this occasion.

The King of Limbs is a sparse eight tracks of clicking drumlines, disjointed synth loops, and dour noise, with nary a moment of wallowing melody or even diversionary experimentation filling the ranks. The two Radiohead albums that The King of Limbs bears the closest resemblance to are Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief.