We're almost bored with hearing the constant rumours of a new Radiohead album at this point.
First, they set up a new company; then Thom Yorke played a few new songs acoustically, hinting they'd be on the new album; recently, they released what may be the new album's artwork.
The release is inevitable at this point, but the rumour mill has churned up a pretty interesting tidbit.
Apparently, the band have shot a music video in Los Angeles with none other than Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, The Master, Inherent Vice and more.
FACTmag report that the video was shot in an LA suburb, quoting podcast host Stephanie Wilder-Taylor from the For Crying Out Loud podcast as saying: "So, I’m at home and there’s a knock at the door… there’s a guy with a clipboard. I come to the door with a scowl on my face and the guy says, ‘Hey, we’re in the neighbourhood, we’re going to be shooting a music video.’ So now, I’m thinking you’re basically telling me – what happens a lot in my neighbourhood, because it’s a very typical suburban looking neighbourhood – I’m gonna be inconvenienced.”
She explained that the guy with the clipboard disclosed that it was a Radiohead video, and offered her $200 to shoot in her house.
She went on: "Then the next day, the guy goes, 'I wanna bring the director by your house'… this guy comes in, says ‘hey, this is the director, Paul’… really normal looking guy. Then I say, ‘hey, you look kind of familiar… Have we met?’ Do you make anything apart from music videos?”
Anderson told her that he directed There Will Be Blood, to which her response was: “I was like, ‘Oh shit!"
The podcast in question has since been pulled from its website.
