The King of Limbs Part 2

I am just making a few updates in this post.  This week has been one that we have all been waiting for.

The first thing I want to get into is that Chieftan Mews has deleted some of his old messages on Twitter again.  I think they were deleted yesterday sometime.  He did delete his tweets that refer to The Ides Of March.  Now in my opinion this could mean that they have possibly changed the date, or to make it harder for us to gather information, etc.  I also think that it’s  possible with all that has happened recently in Japan, they could postpone anything that was planned out of concern and respect.  And, if they DO release something this week, it does not mean that they don’t have respect for Japan.  This is just my opinion.

So, lets look at the dates again.  March 15th is The Ides Of March and is tomorrow.  March 19th is a Full Moon and Super Moon on the calendar and is exactly 1 month from the original planned release date of The King Of Limbs, they moved it forward by a day.  Remember Ed O’Brien mentioning the Full Moon?  March 20th is the first day of Spring (Remember this post from yesterday?).

Then if we are getting 1-2 new EP’s per season for a total of 8 this could be how the “Newspaper” edition works.  This was sent in as an e-mail to me.

i’m not tweeting, i don’t post on forums, so i thought i could remind you by mail, in support to the latest “series of 8 lps (or however they appear over the time) theory”, that aphex twin did something similar couple of years ago with his “analord” releases.

“analord” is/are 11 twelve inch vinyls of mean (and beautiful) aphex acid from 2005. first he released lp10 with a leather box in which all of the future releases would fit, and then, over the course of six months, he released the rest. you could only order them from rephlex records site and could not buy them in store.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analord

i know it’s not the same, but is quite similar, prescription-wise, and slightly packaging-wise. all this could be the thing that inspired thom and others. i would even bet my money on the fact that analord vinyl box is a proud item in thom’s lp collection. he is an aphexhead, no doubt.

This person did not want their name mentioned, so that is why it is not included.  I think something like this makes a lot of sense when you think about receiving a total of 8 EPs for a total of 8 vinyl’s.  If this is the case I might guess that its possible that it MAY require an additional purchase.

So, we have all of these references to the Moon, and on top of that Thom and Stanley released the Radiohead calendar in 2005 with Moon phases in it.  There are lyrics in Lotus Flower “and all i want is the moon upon a stick”.  Then we have silence from the band.  We have not even gotten as little as an office chart on Radiohead.com.  The bands label XL Recordings has articles on their website about Part 2 rumors.  This is an automatic feed on their site, but they would surely delete any post that could be viewed as negative.  And, the band has denied rumors pretty quickly in the past, and these rumors are pretty big and have been going on for almost 1 month.  Another thing when they announced In Rainbows they sent out clues about the binary number 10.  Here is an excerpt from an interview:

Puddlegum first addressed the Binary Theory in Radiohead: 1010101010. Someone associated with Thom Yorke contacted Puddlegum, sharing Thom’s reaction to Puddlegum’s article:

“The meaning behind all of this is right in front of our faces, we’re just overlooking it. [Thom] has been expecting an article much like this one for a couple of years, as have I. But I’m willing to wager he’ll have fun waiting a few more. On the other hand, it seems to annoy him that no one ‘gets it’ yet, given the mountain of clues.”

There are so many clues, but it’s still possible that we have missed or overlooked something.  Let me know your thoughts in the comments section.

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Here is what the promo disc looks like for The King Of Limbs,  Notice it has those 8 arms on the disc?

All of the artwork on the promo disc is in black and white and the branches on the packaging look a lot like the new Radiohead website design.  This photo was originally posted on the Radiohead collector Facebook page.  You can visit their page by clicking here.

Below is the promo single for Lotus Flower, there is a Radio Edit and the full length track.  This artwork first appeared on Stanley Donwood’s Twitter background, though it was not red.  The disc is white with black text, notice the Radiohead logo is backwards again.

Here is a promo DVD for the Lotus Flower video, the disc is white with black text.

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I was recently interviewed by ‘From the Audiophiles’ on “The King Of Limbs” or TKOL2 Conspiracy and it is available now on iTunes (my interview, not TKOL2).  You can listen to it by visiting the following link, the podcast is titled ‘Conspiracy!’ http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/from-the-audiophiles/id421927797.

Below, I have posted a few pictures that were sent to me by someone in Japan that were taken back on Feb 18th in Hachikō Square which is in Tokyo, Japan when the “Lotus Flower” video premiered there.  If you are not familiar with this area in Japan, it is much like Times Square in New York City here in the US.

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Could Radiohead’s new revolutionary release method consist of 2 new EP’s per season and a total of 35 new songs?  I have heard many times now that The King Of Limbs sounds like it is 2 EP’s; the first 4 songs: Bloom, Morning Mr Magpie, and Little By Little sound like they fit together very well.  Then take Lotus Flower, Codex, Give Up The Ghost, and Separator and they could be their own EP.  Now take a look at the picture below.  This is from a new banner ad to order The King Of Limbs(I will put the full picture at the bottom of this post.  Now imagine that the 2 orange hands represent TKOL1.  Two EP’s or Limbs (Arms) with 4 songs.

This is from inkybrown on At Ease and Mortigi Tempo with her thoughts on what exactly these hands possibly represent:

4 seasons
2 EPs per season
EPs will alternate between 5-track and 4-track each season, but one season will have two 4-track releases.
(count the fingers!)

(the one season with two 4-track releases could be the one
8 track release of winter, TKOL)

They are moving around like on a clock.

Orange= 8 tracks (TKOL), Winter

Yellow= 9 tracks, Spring

Red= 9 tracks, Summer

Brown= 9 tracks, Fall

A CLOCK!

Now this make a lot of sense not only to me, but also to the what seemed to be the majority of users on At Ease and Mortigi Tempo (which is extremely rare).  I think it is possible that she could be off on the seasons with all the bird chirping, and song titles like Bloom, and Lotus Flower.  Now, it will be physically released in the Spring.  Also with the artwork, there is almost always a reason for EVERY little detail when it comes to Radiohead and Stanley Donwood.

Keep in mind with all of these Moon theories we have the 15th of March, which is the Ides of March.  March 19th is a Full Moon, and March 20th is the first day of Spring.  Don’t get me wrong, 35 songs is a lot of music to be released by a single band in one year.   Though, according to Jonny Greenwood the band were still recording in his interview with BBC.  We know the band has a bunch of songs that they have played live over the last couple of years.  The song Morning Mr Magpie has been around since “The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth Of All Time”.  I think there was also an interview with Phil where he mentioned they had “loads” of songs recorded. (I will try and find it)

It could also be that The Newspaper Edition of The King Of Limbs will store all of the other EP’s once they have been released.  We will have to wait and see how it all plays out, though I think this could be considered a “revolutionary” release strategy.  The Kid A/ Amnesiac sessions led to over 30+ songs being recorded and a few other songs that were not recorded but appeared later from those sessions.

Here is the ad:

Here is a list of some of the know song’s that the band has not released yet:

The Present Tense
I Froze Up
Burn The Witch
Open The Floodgates
Skirting On The Surface
Walking Down The Staircase
The Daily Mail
Wake Me Before They Come
Supercollider
Riding The Bullets
Come To Your Senses
Follow Me Around
Rubbernecks
Big Boots/Manowar
Dogwander
Lift
True Love Waits

Here is an interview with Ed O’Brien talking about recording music in different seasons:

On releasing ‘These Are My Twisted Words’ online he said: “It’s a kind of one-off. It could have been a darker side of ‘In Rainbows’ – it’s got that autumnal vibe, we’re leaving the summer and going into the darkness.”

He added that with Radiohead set to reconvene in their Oxfordshire studio this winter, the season might similarly affect the new songs. “Typical Radiohead,” he laughed. “We’re going into the studio in winter. It’s always miserable! Are we at the whim of the seasons? We are! When you’re in a studio in the countryside, the music you make is definitely affected by what season it is.”  You can read the article here.

Let me know what you think.

Here is another new ad that I just found:

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