These Are My Twisted Words
"These Are My Twisted Words" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead. It was released via BitTorrent on 12 August 2009, possibly by Radiohead. On 17 August, Radiohead released it as a free download on their website. Several critics likened the song to krautrock.
Release
On 12 August 2009, "These Are My Twisted Words" appeared unannounced on What.CD, a BitTorrent tracker. A text file included in the torrent file contained ASCII art, a cryptic poem and a reference to a release date of 17 August. Commentators including the Guardian and Rolling Stone speculated that Radiohead had leaked the song themselves following the unconventional pay-what-you-want release of their 2007 album In Rainbows.On 17 August, Radiohead released "These Are My Twisted Words" as a free download from their website and through a torrent file hosted by Mininova. The download included several pieces of artwork by Yorke and the longtime Radiohead collaborator Stanley Donwood, with the suggestion to print them on tracing paper. In a blog post announcing the song, the guitarist Jonny Greenwood said it had been recently completed and made no mention of the leak. Radiohead performed "These Are My Twisted Words" on their 2012 The [King of Limbs|King of Limbs] tour.
The text file included in the original torrent contained the phrase "Wall of Ice", triggering speculation that it was the title of an upcoming Radiohead EP. The phrase "wall of eyes" later appeared in promotional materials for Radiohead's next album, The King of Limbs ''. More than a decade later, the title Wall of Eyes'' was used for an album by the Radiohead side project the Smile.