After mysteriously deactivating their website and deleting their social media history over the weekend, Radiohead have revealed a new teaser featuring a snippet of new music.

Earlier today the band updated their previously blank Instagram account with a short, stop-motion animated video of bird tweeting. Now they've added another video animated in a similar style (halfway between Trumpton and The Wicker Man) that depicts a woman tied to a tree while men with swords dance around her ceremonially, with a guitar twanging urgently in the background.

The video looks a little like a witch-burning, which would make a lot of sense given the band also sent out flyers to UK fans with the words “Sing the song of sixpence that goes ‘Burn the witch’”. Those words were likely referencing “Burn the Witch”, a currently unreleased Radiohead song that the band have been working on since at least the early 00s.

It’s likely that the clips are building up to the full release of a new music video from Radiohead – which, as DIY report, might be due later today. Yesterday, music video director Chris Hopewell (who previously worked with Radiohead on the video to “There There”) posted on his Instagram that he was working on an animated film, telling a user “you’ll have to wait till tomoro to see the whole thing”.

All the teasers are likely being released in anticipation of Radiohead’s first album since 2011’s The King of Limbs. Watch this space for more updates.