Radiohead: Burn the Witch (2016) watch online HD

"Burn the Witch" was accompanied by a stop-motion animated music video that pays homage to the 1960s British children's television programme Camberwick Green and the 1973 British horror film The Wicker Man. An inspector is greeted by a town mayor and invited to see a series of unsettling sights, culminating in the unveiling of a wicker man. The mayor urges the inspector to climb into the wicker man, whereupon he is locked inside as a human sacrifice and the wicker man is set on fire. As the flames gather, the townspeople turn their backs and wave goodbye to the camera. After the song ends, the inspector escapes among the trees.

The video homages the 1973 horror film The Wicker Man.

Radiohead developed the song for over a decade, first working on it during the sessions for their fourth album, Kid A (2000).

According to Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, who arranges the band's string sections, "Burn the Witch" was written with strings in mind.

The visual style of the video was deliberately lighter in tone than the song, as Radiohead "wanted the video to contrast with what they're playing and to wake people up a bit."

The song's lyrics reference the wave of authoritarianism, populism and political instability throughout the world since 2015.

"Burn the Witch" was described by the Atlantic as an orchestral pop song and by the Guardian as an art rock song.

Rolling Stone named "Burn the Witch" one of the 30 best songs of the first half of 2016.

It uses stop-motion animation in the style of the Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley series of 1960s English children's television program (also known as the Trumpton Trilogy).

Director Chris Hopewell previously directed the partially-animated music for Radiohead's "There There."

The song received positive reviews and was nominated for Best Rock Song at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.

The "Burn the Witch" music video was directed by Chris Hopewell, who previously directed the animated video for Radiohead's 2003 single "There There".

Animator Virpi Kettu, who worked on the music video, interpreted the song as a comment on the European migrant crisis and scapegoating of Muslims.

Pitchfork writer Marc Hogan suggested that the use of the Trumpton Trilogy style in the video, which portrays an idyllic, crime-free rural Britain, reflects the rhetoric of family values used by right-wing politicians such as Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, and members of the UK Independence Party.

After the election of US President Donald Trump on 8 November 2016, Yorke tweeted lyrics from the song and linked to its music video, interpreted as a criticism of Trump's right-wing policies.

According to the son-in-law of Trumpton creator Gordon Murray, the family was not asked permission to use the style for the video and saw it as a "tarnishing of the brand."