Radiohead Release New Video Directed By Paul Thomas Anderson

Following their recent disappearing trick, Radiohead aren't wasting any time in reasserting their online presence ahead of their forthcoming studio album, releasing their second video this week in the form of the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed Daydreaming.

The clip capitalises on the ephemera of its title in a visual sense, the video shrouded in a sense of surrealism as frontman Thom Yorke searches determinedly for… something… (home? warmth?) through an array of landscapes — houses, a library, the beach, basement carparks, the goddamned mountains — joined by space-bending doors, all the while soundtracked by the hushed, ethereal slow build of the song.

It's as fitting a follow-up to the recently released Burn The Witch as it is a departure, and only serves to further bolster the palpable sense of anticipation precipitating the album's ushering into the world this month.

The clip's director, Anderson, is best-known as the auteur behind features such as The Master, Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love.

Radiohead's imminent ninth album will be released digitally tomorrow, Sunday 8 May, at 7pm British Standard Time (4am AEST, Monday 9 May). If you're the impatient sort, you can grab Daydreaming as a single here.