Radiohead drops a trippy music video for Follow Me Around

London, UK – Radiohead is back with a new music video for the band's formerly unreleased track, Follow Me Around, and actor Guy Pearce came through with quite the assist.

Thom Yorke of Radiohead performs on-stage at NorthSide music festival in Aarhus, Denmark on June 11, 2017.
Thom Yorke of Radiohead performs on-stage at NorthSide music festival in Aarhus, Denmark on June 11, 2017.  © IMAGO/Gonzales Photo

While Follow Me Around might not be considered "new" to diehard Radiohead fans, the track got the star treatment when it came to its trippy, newly-released music video.

The band itself was out of sight, and in their place stood famed Memento actor, Guy Pearce, as the main character.

The music video has an old-school feel to it in the way it's shot, using a fish eye lens and video effects that make it appear as if it were a VHS tape recording from the '90s.

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In the video, the 54-year-old is being followed around his apartment by a camera that seems to register as a pesky fly of sorts to Pearce, who is seen constantly trying to swat it away.

As things progress, the actor becomes increasingly aware of – and annoyed by – the camera's obsessive existence.

This sends Pearce to the point where he starts to question what's real, and what's a product of his paranoid imagination.

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Radiohead performs at the NorthSide music festival in Aarhus, Denmark on June 11, 2017.
Radiohead performs at the NorthSide music festival in Aarhus, Denmark on June 11, 2017.  © IMAGO/Gonzales Photo

Halfway through, Pearce is seen peering into his own eyes in the mirror in hopes of snapping out of this existential crisis he may or may not be experiencing.

All the while, the band sings, "Nowadays I get panicked, I cease to exist – I have ceased to exist. I feel absolutely nothing."

Towards the end of the video, Pearce seems to completely lose it and frantically runs out of his building to escape the pesky fly-like camera. He shakes out his robe before completely tossing it to the side to seek refuge in a van.

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For a moment, Pearce appears to believe he's escaped, as he's enjoying a moment of solitude in the driver's seat of what he thinks is an empty van. That is until he realizes the camera returned to "follow me around" yet again.

The new music video for Follow Me Around comes four days before the band's release of their forthcoming album, Kid A Mnesia.

The album will serve as the joint reissuing of two Radiohead albums, Kid A and Amnesiac, and is set to include several unreleased recordings, such as If You Say The Word.

Kid A Mnesia will be released under XL Recordings, on Friday, November 5.

Cover photo: IMAGO/Gonzales Photo

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