Burn the Witch- There is something deeply offputting and deeply satisfyin about the contradictons of this childlike video, the staccato strings at the beginning and then the drum-machine sounds that ease in. Thom’s voice is often at odds with everything else too, going places you never imagine (for good or bad). The music creates an urgency that just keeps going. On second listen there is a very low droning weird sound. Very cool. It looks like the video references the similarly weird movie, “The Wicker Man.” 2 great versions of this movie, the latter with Nicholas Cage.
Radiohead – Burn the Witch
Unmistakably Radiohead – yet different. I think the strings really make it – both plucked (or at least staccato) and then soaring. It has an initial brightness and an overall feeling of fire/flames – similar to that of XTC’s Sacrificial Bonfire. Don’t have the mental energy to assess the lyrics this morning.
“Burn the Witch”/Radiohead. R-head’s musical approach here has perhaps more in common with minimalist composers like P. Glass and Steve Reich than with rock or pop.The seemingly untethered melody is beautiful. On first listen I grasped only fragments of the lyrics, but those fragments fairly represented the general atmosphere of dread you get reading the full lyrics, and which is also communicated by the music. As to the video, when it began I was getting “Wicker Man” vibes and then that’s just where it went. Super creepy.
Burn the Witch- There is something deeply offputting and deeply satisfyin about the contradictons of this childlike video, the staccato strings at the beginning and then the drum-machine sounds that ease in. Thom’s voice is often at odds with everything else too, going places you never imagine (for good or bad). The music creates an urgency that just keeps going. On second listen there is a very low droning weird sound. Very cool. It looks like the video references the similarly weird movie, “The Wicker Man.” 2 great versions of this movie, the latter with Nicholas Cage.
Radiohead – Burn the Witch
Unmistakably Radiohead – yet different. I think the strings really make it – both plucked (or at least staccato) and then soaring. It has an initial brightness and an overall feeling of fire/flames – similar to that of XTC’s Sacrificial Bonfire. Don’t have the mental energy to assess the lyrics this morning.
“Burn the Witch”/Radiohead. R-head’s musical approach here has perhaps more in common with minimalist composers like P. Glass and Steve Reich than with rock or pop.The seemingly untethered melody is beautiful. On first listen I grasped only fragments of the lyrics, but those fragments fairly represented the general atmosphere of dread you get reading the full lyrics, and which is also communicated by the music. As to the video, when it began I was getting “Wicker Man” vibes and then that’s just where it went. Super creepy.