Radiohead released a video for “Burn The Witch” on Tuesday, their first major new release since the album The King of Limbs in 2011. Its video is a cutesy stop-motion animation made in the style of children’s TV shows like Trumpton and Camberwick Green, featuring characters in a quaint little English village. And, like Little Englanders, these characters hide their bitterness and distrust of outsiders beneath a cosy veneer.

So it’s maybe no surprise to hear that the video may have been inspired by the refugee crisis. Speaking to Billboard, video animator Virpi Kettu has suggested that the “Burn the Witch” video was a commentary on the “blaming of different people... the blaming of Muslims and the negativity” that breeds witch hunt-style sentiment in the UK. She also suggested that the postcards that some Radiohead fans received recently – which read “we know where you live” – could be evoking the rhetoric of xenophobic politicians.

Additionally, she told Billboard that the entire video, from concept to completion, was made over just 14 days by a team of barely a dozen or so people. “That's physically impossible. I had not slept for two weeks,” she said.

Watch the video below.