This was sent in by Michael

“I cropped it a little better… The card is being held at a 45 degree angle with the top of the card being cut off by the bottom of the album cover. The ghost is holding it from the bottom left corner of the card and you can see the Queen in her robes with a little hat on… She is horizontal along the bottom of the picture. Above her, one can barely make out a Q — something, presumably “Qu” There is a red smudge where the ghost is holding it, that I believe is the diamond.”

The Queen Of Diamonds. Let me know what you think. Also, in a French deck of cards the Queen of Diamonds is named Rachel, which is also the name of Thom Yorke’s girlfriend. Thanks to colamatto for the info. Read more here.

38.

Now remember Leo (@decath10n) from #8? Here is an interesting conversation he had with someone today (2-28-2010) on twitter,

From @vematias “@decath10n what do you think about all speculations around #thekingoflimbs?”
From @decath10n“@vematias Is there any eventuality that hasn’t been covered yet?”
From @vematias “@decath10n I was hoping you could tell me!”
From @decath10n “@vematias All will be revealed in due course. But not by me.”
From @vematias “@decath10n No mews is good news?”

37.

In an interview with Jonny Greenwood from November 2010 he gives out some information for the upcoming album, here is an excerpt:

“While Greenwood didn’t digress much on specific aspects of the album (he even admitted he tends to remove himself from the decision making process), the guitarist did say “10 pieces (tracks) maybe some more” would be included. Greenwood also noted that the band has yet to decide how to release the effort.”

So he is suggesting that there will be 10 or more tracks. You can read the entire interview here.

36.

Here is an interesting essay written by Colin Greenwood on the way music today is distributed in October of 2010. You can read the entire thing here. Below are some excerpts that I found interesting.

“With In Rainbows, we were able to be the first people to digitally release our record, directly to people’s personal computers, at 7.30am GMT on 10 October 2007. I was having breakfast, and watched as the file appeared in my email, and the album streamed onto my desktop. I spent the next day and night monitoring people’s reactions online, both to the music and the means of delivery. Journalists in America had stayed up overnight to write the first review as they received the music – again, in the pre-digital age they would have had advance copies up to three weeks before. On the torrent site bulletin boards, people were arguing over whether they should be downloading and paying for the record from our site, rather than the free torrents. Various online pundits and pamphleteers were pronouncing the end of the record business, or of Radiohead, or of both.”
“Three years later, we have just finished another group of songs, and have begun to wonder about how to release them in a digital landscape that has changed again.”
There are a couple of things that stand out to me on this. The biggest thing is they are trying to come up with different ways of releasing music, which is what I think they are doing now, though we have only received part of the completed work. Notice he also mentions “group” of songs? I think that is how they are being released by “groups”. He also discusses that after “In Rainbows” was released he was watching people’s reactions online. That would also make me think that he is familiar with 2 of the more popular Radiohead message boards online, which of course are AtEase and Mortigi Tempo (greenplastic). I point this out because the band usually denies rumors that go around, and if you are familiar with these message boards, you would know that both of them have gone crazy with some of these rumors since the album was released back on 2-18-2011.”

35.

This picture was sent from @AdamAsRoot on twitter to Chieftan Mews.

This is courtesy of Muggs on the MT message boards, but I also saw AdamAsRoot’s Twitter feed 1-2 days ago.

Also from Muggs on MT message boards; Remember ages ago there was a red and green image posted to Mew’s twitter that had Aporia on it in 3D? Well I got curious about the green image under it and ran some colour filtering to try and clear it up a bit.”

Now take a closer look at the image in the background on the image on the left.

This is a picture of the real King of Limbs in the Savernake Forest.

@AdamAsRoot was on twitter up until a few days ago where he ‘disappeared’ (I really hope we didn’t spook him) sadly I’d switched off my computer at that point and lost the feed so I couldn’t screenshot it. I’ve since tried to get it back but there’s no cache of it anywhere. He was one of the few people tweeting back and forth with Mews before Mews deleted his old log. One of the Twitters to Mews was ’transmissions received’ or something like that. This makes me think its Adam from the Scotch Mist Webcast. The last Twitter message from Adam was something along the line of// Limbs.Solders something something Radio.Silence // Adamas is also ancient greek.. Apparently for Diamond.

Also: “No News is Good News” is the header on Stanley’s blog. Click here

34.

Look as if the album artwork has been found, from the users on AtEase:

“It appears to be an InDesign thumbnail. It was embedded within the album art that came with the download. There’s a bunch of code in there that seems to be for an InDesign document, but I can’t get InDesign to read the file. If someone could, maybe we could get a better look at this thumbnail and read some of the text. ”
“Open up The King of Limbs album art in a text editor and ctrl+f for “256.”
Around here begins a bunch of code that defines a 256×256 thumbnail.
The code itself starts with “/9j” and ends with “/9k=”. If you want to test this out for yourself and you happen to have the official .jpg, copy and paste this code:
If this is the actual album artwork it only shows 8 songs, so that could mean if there are other songs they will be available in the “Newspaper Album”.

Then, replace the XXXX with everything between and including the “/9j” and “/9k=” in the album art. Open up the HTML file.”
Here is some additional information on it: The reason for this is because Adobe embeds a great deal of metadata in files their programs handle. The code in the .jpeg supplied with the album is such metadata. Included is a thumbnail from InDesign of the album design. I believe this is because the .jpeg was extracted directly from the album design, and retained some of its metadata.”

32.

The following is an e-mail that was sent to me confidentially today from a Sound Engineer in North America. I have removed the names and cities to keep the source confidential I replaced names and cities with a single X.

“Hi,

First of all, congrats for your site. Yeah, so i wanted to tell you some info that i know from 100% sure sources. I’m a sound engineer in X at a top studio. The top producer here, let’s name him X, is Nigel Godrich’s good friend. He knew him back then when they we’re both ‘runner” at Audio one in England. Back in November, Nigel was supposed to come to X to visit X because he was now free because RH finished their album. Unfortunately, (for me also, i really wanted to see him), Nigel cancelled the trip because he had to rush back to the studio since RH wanted to record, and i quote ”even more songs ”. He used this term because as you know, it was known back then that they have been on fire in the summer and that they we’re at their most productive period of all time. Nigel told him that they we’re on fire and wanted to record more songs to back up a ”killer concept they have been working on since they want to revolutionize even more after In rainbows”. Also, I want to confirm a fact to you. Chieftan Mews is not Donwood, it is Nigel. X once told me that his kids we’re now scared of Nigel because of his ”weird appearance in that movie” this movie is, obviously lying mouth. In fact, it’s easy to see, just compare the Chieftan picture with a picture of Nigel’s face…the eyes, shins and nose are the same. Also, monday , on a alcohol-centered ”after-prod” party, X told me he was kinda mad at Nigel because he just won’t tell anything about the ”weird shit he is posting on twitter. I then said he has no verified account of Nigel and he told me ” not that account the Cheif Mews account. Then he told me the next day that the account was controlled by both Nigel and Stanley when they have something to put out so it’s 100% sure that account is controlled by somebody in touch with the band.
That is it.
Good day
P.s. the queen of diamonds is a good trail. Since donwood talk about it all the times on his blog, (he refers to snow as diamonds.)”

To me this e-mail would seem to confirm that there are more than 8 songs, and support the theory that Chieftan Mews is both Nigel and Stanley. I don’t know this person on a personal level but he seems very sincere and honest. And I where he lives in North America English is not the only language spoken there.

31.
A hidden MP3 audio file in the album art work (The artwork from the download both MP3/ WAV) was discovered by the fine folks at Mortigi Tempo:

“We were curious about why the album artwork is 4.84 MB, which is quite large for an image.
So some people ran the picture through a program called Photosounder. Most pictures just produce a sort of white noise. But if you run the album cover though you get a rhythmic, almost eerie sound. If you isolate the text from the cover (by deleting out the rest of the cover) and fiddle with the settings in Photosounder, the image produces what sounds a lot like birdsong. There are a lot of small details within the title (the tree branches), so if the file was too small the birdsong would be lost (or less apparent). So, basically, there’s music hidden in the album cover.”

Also: If you reverse this file it may rhythmically sound like the melody in ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’. This relates it to ‘Burn the Witch’, and on the atease forum Aporia posted a picture and a line from this nursery rhyme in a thread titled ‘Bird Song’. AND because in the tweet Donwood posted about the story he was reading, there were no bird songs in the woods. There were only sounds of birds after they got rid of the slug creature in the woods.

30.
Notice in this photo posted a few months ago on the bands website.
When you look in the bottom right corner of the painting in the back right corner you can see in the bottom left of the photo the album cover. Now if you notice the photo to the left of it, there is a Magpie which is a “long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call” in that painting. Any guesses?

29.
(2-25-2011) APORIA posted this message on the AtEase message boards, “somniloquence”, another anagram. You can easily see “queen” in there, as well as “Clues En Qi Moon”. We know about possible clues from the moon, as well as Chieftan Mews tweeting about “The Queen of Diamonds”.
Two more messages from Aporida today,

“it from Obit: agenbite of Nitwit” and “[AT,E] IT: O, YET WE TRUST.”

Your guess is as good as mine.
UPDATE 2-26-2011: Aporia’s last post was another reference to Ulysses by James Joyce. ‘Agenbite of Nitwit’ is a mis-spelling of ‘agenbite of inwit’, a phrase used by Joyce, which is itself a mis-spelling of ‘Ayenbite of Inwyt’. This is a Middle English phrase meaning ‘prick of conscience’. Furthermore, it is very interesting that the main character of Ulysses is called Leopold Bloom. First track on TKOL? Bloom. Bloomsday on the 16th of June is a day that the works of James Joyce are celebrated. There also happens to be a full moon on the 15th/16th of June.

28.
OK, this could be big! Posted directly on XL Recordings website link. XL Recordings is the band’s record label!! If all of this were not true the band would dispel these rumors one would think. Also, I can’t imagine a record label would post a rumor about one of their own artist’s and it not end up being true. I think that would be negative publicity.

27.
Aporia has made 2 posts today on AtEase:

“When a part so ptee does duty for the holos we soon grow to use of an all for a bit “

and “bit by bit”.

OK, “bit by bit”, are lyrics to “Little By Little”. We are getting the album bit by bit.

26.
I think there is a message or clue or something at Stanley Donwood’s art exhibit down on Greek Street in London. This photo is taken from his website :
Exert from his website: link

“It doesn’t seem like much time has passed since I made a silent vow to myself never to do another exhibition. I am no good at keeping silent vows made to myself. Another one, Work on Paper, is up now, hanging on the walls of the gallery pictured above. Look carefully, because this is important. There are two doors, aren’t there? One on the left, one on the right. If you choose to visit this exhibition then I recommend you choose the door on the left. Not the door on the right, as that leads elsewhere and moreover to regions which are beyond the purview of the exhibition. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Although for some people this warning may have come to late. My apologies to all concerned for any confusion or distress caused…”

I think there is a clue, or a message, behind the door on the right. Who is in London that can check? Also, there might be other clues there. In #12 about I added a link to some photos someone took of his art gallery, though I was not able to see anything out of the norm. If you see him there try to get some information out of him if possible. And take photos and video if possible. UPDATE: The door on the right leads to where you can meet up with a “model”, for a “massage”, or “other services” hence the warning… I still think there might be a few clues at this exhibit.

25.
(2-24-2010) Stanley Donwood posted the following tweet today, “i think im being shadowed by chieftan mews: ims menoo. more later. when i know”. The only person Stanley follows on twitter is Chieftan Mews and Mews only follows him. I think Stanley is Chieftan Mews. You can see his twitter account by click here: http://twitter.com/StanleyDonwood

24.
This was posted today (02-23-2011) on the AtEase Message Boards by the same user(“Aporia”) from #19, which is thought to be a member of the band or Thom

“If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. [OP] “

Ok, what is this suppossed to mean??  Help me by leaving a comment. (Update) OK, so this may refer to a Queen… Now look at #12 Chieftan Mews sent a tweet out on Feb 17th “Where is my queen of diamonds?” The OP stand for Octavio Paz. (Update 2) Also, the word octavo is a book or pamphlet made up of one or more full sheets of paper on which 16 pages of text were printed, which were then folded three times to produce eight leaves. Each leaf of an octavo book thus represents one eighth the size of the original sheet. Could there be 16 songs total?

23.
Go to the King olf Limb order page, that you reach from the Dead Air Space website…
Then go to “order tracking” after entering your e-mail and password.
The URL of the page ends with : OrderTracking/memberindex.php.
Now try to add “2″ right after “memberindex”, like this:
OrderTracking/memberindex2.php
Then hit “Enter”: the page reloads immediatly
Now try to add “3″ : you get a blank page saying “BYE”
Try to add “4″, or “5″, or any number you want: you get a blank page saying “No Imput File specified”
Which means that page 2 and 3 are already reserved….3 limbs? …we already got the first one!
This is from a tumblr account; I will provide a link once I find it…

22.
The 6th song on “The King of Limbs” is titled “Codex”, and the word “Codex” A codex (Latin caudex for “trunk of a tree” or block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book in the format used for modern books, with multiple signatures (two, four, or eight sheets which are folded, stitched, and bound), then typically bound together and given a cover. Could the first 8 songs be the tree trunk, and the other releases be the limbs? Link

21.
The photo below was a conversation that took place with an operator on The King Of Limbs website, stating that people who only got the digital album would be able to upgrade to the “Newspaper” edition. I think this almost confirms that there will be more music released. Click on the image.

20.
In a mysterious post on the http://www.ateaseweb.com/ (Radiohead fan site) on the message board there was a post by a user(“Aporia”), (thought to be a member of the band, many think it is Thom Yorke) giving away some clues about the album and its cover. It gave the names Arbor and Spyky, which is thought to be the name of the ghost like creatures on the cover of the album; then provided the picture below, and a picture of the album cover.
It is thought that this painting inspired the album cover… This painting is title “Amor & Psyche” by Eduard Munch. Not sure what to make of this yet?

19.
Here is a clue, that was given by (neonred) in the comments section. The album was originally set to come out on Feb 19th, but on Feb 18th, which is the exact date of the Full Moon phase (which Ed mentioned when it was made available for download, that it was a full moon!). What might happen on Feb 24th, which is the date for the half-moon phase? Or March 4th its the date of the No Moon phase (which is also a Friday). There is another full-moon phase for March 19th. This album does seem to be based around a heavy Nature theme already! See more on the lunar calendar here. And how about this, lyrics from Lotus Flower, “And all I want is the moon upon a stick”. I think we are on to something with this!

18.
Let’s take a closer look at the photo below:
This is a photo released for The King Of Limbs, if you notice Ed and Thom are located at each end of the photo holding an arm (limb) at the same height. It is a little harder to see Thom’s arm because at the angle he is holding his arms. Phil is also holding his arm out the same way as Thom. It was also brought to my attention that Jonny is also holding his arm out in the same way. Are they giving us clues with this photo? Four arms (limbs) = 4 EP’s? Why is Colin not holding his arm out??
Let’s also look at this photo:

This photo was on first seen on their website as they announced The King of Limbs. Could this be another clue? I feel as if there is a message in this picture, though I am not sure what it is just yet.

17.
From KyleLogan from atease http://www.ateaseweb.com/

“When you open Bloom and the JPG of the album artwork in Notepad it’s just random characters but there is a line in both that says
“T I C K 0 0 1 C D 4 P P S L I T P A C K – D E L G A”
it actually looks more like this
“T I C K 0 0 1 C D (space) 4 P P (space) S L I T (space) P A C K – D E L G A”

What is interesting is the CD4, are there somehow a total of 4 discs, or 4 releases?

16.
Here is a conversation that supposedly took place on The King Of Limbs order support live chat:

[Visitor] is the twitter account “ChieftanMews” http://twitter.com/#!/ChieftanMews in any way affiliated with the band. the reason i ask, this account accurately predicted radiohead’s “japanese tweet” as well as the video for lotus flower
[Operator 3]we know of chieftan mews
[Visitor] so this isn’t a troll?
[Operator 3] no, this is all i can say

Not sure what this means???
This was his background on Twitter:

The black box reads “BASF sound loop 8+ 90”, this is an 8-track used to record music on to one of these. 8 tracks…there were 8 tracks released originally
Let’s also look at an entry that Radiohead guitarist Ed O’brien made on the band’s website on Tuesday February the 8th:

The Dignity Revolution

“What have twitter and facebook ever done for us?
Obviously, keeping in touch with everyone but I have to say I have become increasingly excited over the last 3 months about the possibilities of this form of communication.Yes I am very slow out of the blocks. It’s in the arena of public protest that it seems twitter and facebook are increasingly the means by which popular movements throughout the world are able to come together and mobilise.
I have been so moved by the peaceful Jasmine revolution in Tunisia; The anti-Government demonstrations centred on Tahrir Square in Cairo.. Social networking has helped facilitate the freedom to assemble peacefully and express oneself. Equally in Britain it seems to be having a similar effect in helping essential protests being organised by students and groups such as UK Uncut against the Government’s ill thought out cuts … Well done those people!

Ed”

Here is a link to the band’s website: http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/
Now this may not not mean anything at all, but it does show that the band are aware of the power of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Which could make these tweets hold some type of meaning?

12.
The band had 3-4 years to write and record “The King Of Limbs”, and the final album will have 8 tracks and 37:29 in length? One would think there would be more to the album than this. Thom Yorke has been performing new material. There are a handful of songs that may have been recorded, yet not released. Where these songs at are: The Daily Mail, The Present Tense, Burn the Witch, A Walk Down the Staircase?

11.
The band have been awfully quite, and not given any other information or interviews on the new album so far. (Yes, it only has been out for a few days) Though, the band will usually dispel any rumors like this and this has been listed on several major websites.

10.
From a user (name withheld) on AtEase (Radiohead fansite http://www.ateaseweb.com/): “I had a bit of a problem with my order last week, and one of the Operators said to me that next week everyone who ordered the digital-only copy would be contacted to see if they want to upgrade to the Newspaper version.” “There may be more information available early in the week (other than just the music) that may change people’s minds about the Newspaper version”

9.
A twitter post from http://twitter.com/decath10n (Leo?). who sent out the following tweet:

“Suppressing my disappointment that ‘Present Tense’ didn’t make it to the new album…. yet.” #thekingoflimbs #radiohead 10:26 AM Feb 18th via web

Who is this guy, and why might this matter you ask? He is one of only 5 people that Thom Yorke follows on twitter. See for yourself http://twitter.com/thomyorke. I think the keyword in the text from Leo is YET. Does he know something we don’t know? One would think he at least knows Thom Yorke since Thom Follows him on Twitter, right?