This week the world has been a-flutter with the news that Radiohead might be releasing new material on Monday, August 17 after a new song seemed to appear online.
Now, eagle-eyed observers have noticed that elements of the file and code attached to the song featured the words “wall” and “of” and “ice”, and that indeed the combination of the three appeared in a mysterious poem that accomanpanied the track on back-of-the-internet-lorry site what.cd. You can find all the Wall of Ice stuff hidden in the ASCII code here.
If you therefore assume that Radiohead follow the same model as they did with In Rainbows – ie they create a website based on the title of the release – you get www.wallofice.com. And that leads straight to the WASTE shop. In other words, it looks very much like the rumours are true: there’s an EP coming with that title and Radiohead’s site is all set up to receive the orders via that site.
It would also be a massive raspberry to EMI, who are reissuing a load more Radiohead back catalogue to feed Guy Hands’ coffers in a few weeks, not to mention being entirely in tune with Thom Yorke’s hints that the band are no longer interested in going down the path of releasing full-length albums.
Read some nerd discourse about it all here. Geeks not happy about Radiohead using geek thieving technology to release records before they can get hold of them, and so on.
Listen to what might, or might not, be Radiohead’s ‘Wall Of Ice’ below: [via the quietus]
I can’t verify if any of this is true mostly because I’d rather go to the beach than sit at my computer decoding Radiohead messages…but I appreciate the hell out of the folks that do this for us! Hopefully this is true, so here’s the “new tune.” Remember our last Radiohead scare? Cryptic message after the jump.
Radiohead – These Are My Twisted Words (via Stereogum)
and that new tune that i’m still waiting to hear a proper recording of
Radiohead – Super Collider (live in Dublin)
BNS
Superpowerless – No Surprises (Radiohead cover)
Three Leaves And A Head – Nude (Radiohead RMX)
Three Leaves And A Head – Reckoner (Radiohead RMX)
Plan B – Missing Links (Radiohead edit)
Radiohead – Nude (Hipster Runoff remix)
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iiiiiii radiohead – these are my twisted words iiiiiii
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iiii artist…….radiohead iiii
iiii title……..these are my twisted words iiii
iiii label……..?????????? iiii
iiii cat.nr…….????????? iiii
iiii style……..’dificult’ iiii
iiii nr of tracks.1 iiii
iiii total length..5.32 iiii
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iiii audio source.CD Advance iiii
iiii encoder……LAME 3.93 iiii
iiii quality……320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo iiii
iiii size………12,70 MB iiii
iiii ripper…….sca[GG]er iiii
iiii rls.date…..2009-08-17 iiii
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iiii i just wanted to reassure readers iiii
iiii that following representations iiii
iiii seeking confirmation iiii
iiii that before your very eyes iiii
iiii behind the wall of ice iiii
iiii that the box is not under threat iiii
iiii however they are set to remove iiii
iiii other boxes iiii
iiii in fact i have the list in front of me iiii
iiii i went to a briefing on their plans iiii
iiii and challenged them to tell me iiii
iiiii exactly what the cost would be iiiiiii
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iiiiiiii genres: doomcore, folktronica, ukf iiiiiiii
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