'' Pitchfork '' named " Burn the Witch " the week 's " Best New Track " , with senior editor Jillian Mapes writing : " It 's not since '' Kid A '' standout ' How to Disappear Completely ' that Radiohead have created a song this simultaneously unsettling and gorgeous . " Michael Hann of '' The Guardian '' called it " thrilling ... certainly the kind of return – bold and expansive , as well as dark and claustrophobic – that the world might have hoped for . " Larry Bartleet of '' NME '' wrote : " A Radiohead melody has rarely sounded this joyful or indulgent , which puts the disturbing lyrics into especially sharp relief . " Daniel Ross , analysing the song for Classic FM , wrote that " while Radiohead are often held up as denizens of doing it differently ... ' Burn The Witch ' is them working smart rather than working hard . They 've set up simple confines , but within them they 've experimented heavily and made something exceptionally strange , tonally speaking , and inventive to boot . " Alex Hudson of '' Metro '' , however , criticised the lyrics and rhythm , writing : " It is not the Radiohead of old : taking underground musical movements and turning them into a mass market record ( like the entire '' Kid A '' record ) . Here , they sound like they are influenced by the mass market rather than them influencing it . " '' Rolling Stone '' named " Burn the Witch " one of the 30 best songs of the first half of 2016 . '' Billboard '' placed it at number 19 on their " 100 Best Pop Songs of 2016 " list , and the annual '' Village Voice '' Pazz & Jop critics poll ranked " Burn the Witch " number 12 . It was nominated for Best Rock Song at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards
59th Annual Grammy Awards
59th Annual Grammy Awards
Burn the Witch (Radiohead song)