No title or any other info, though.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link
I was half expecting them to release it track by track over several weeks.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link
seems like this album is going to focus on Jonny's orchestrations― ufo, Friday, May 6, 2016 10:06 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is what i was hoping for
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 6 May 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link
On first listen, I really like 'Daydreaming'. Very In Rainbows. This is what Radiohead are good at these days.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
Underwhelming for me, a bit wispy and structureless. Certainly some pretty sections.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
those snoring noises at the end... they turn into a backwards voice. what's it saying?
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
whoa i really loved that
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link
I was asking myself the same thing. I guess "Burn the Pitchfork" will do another "deconstructing RH" article soon. Did anyone notice the director of the video btw?
― EvR, Friday, 6 May 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 6 May 2016 16:24 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's sounds a bit like "warm by the fire", I don't know whether I've just tied it into what's happening at that point in the video
I really like Daydreaming anyway
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 6 May 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
I hope he's saying 'fremme neppa vennette'
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link
I'm excited about this album based on these two songs. It's good stuff.
― jmm, Friday, 6 May 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
And there was me thinking I wouldn't be excited by a new Radiohead album again.
Prefer that they concentrate on doing 'just good songs' this time round rather than sweating over being cutting edge, which is what this sounds like so far.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:37 (eight years ago) link
The first RH video to be released on a Friday?
Video meets the vibe of Anderson's own "Punch-Drunk Love".
― EvR, Friday, 6 May 2016 15:44 (eight years ago) link
Daydreaming is nice and now I'm optimistic this one will be better than The King of Limbs (which wasn't that bad)
I'm glad they seem to be focusing on the orchestral arrangements, it's a sensible direction for them to go in - a new focus for them but yeah, not worrying about being cutting edge or anything.
― ufo, Friday, 6 May 2016 15:45 (eight years ago) link
I'm working on ProTools at home today so I just grabbed the clip and flipped it, results are inconclusive
― MaresNest, Friday, 6 May 2016 16:09 (eight years ago) link
Releasing an album on a Monday like the good lord intended.
― Matt DC, Friday, 6 May 2016 16:18 (eight years ago) link
love Daydreaming, love it so much. if we re polled them, it would be in my top 10.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 6 May 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
Disc: 1The Hoosiers - Worried About RayGroove Armada - Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control)Scouting For Girls - She's So LovelyMark Ronson featuring Daniel Merriweather - Stop MeBlur - TenderLily Allen - LDNCorinne Bailey Rae - Like A StarAlanis Morissette - Crazy (James Michael Mix)The Zutons - Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?The View - Wasted Little DJ'sThe Thrills - One Horse TownMumm-ra - She's Got You HighStarsailor - Silence Is EasyThe Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I GoBadly Drawn Boy - Something To Talk AboutR.E.M - What's The Frequency, Kenneth?Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital DoorsPaolo Nutini - Jenny Don't Be HastyDamien Rice - CannonballPeter, Bjorn And John (featuring Victoria Bergsman) - Young FolksDisc: 2Newton Faulkner - Dream Catch MeThe Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car)Coldplay - YellowJack Peñate - Torn On The PlatformKT Tunstall - Other Side Of The WorldManic Street Preachers featuring Nina Persson - Your Love Alone Is Not EnoughKings Of Leon - On CallJohn Mayer - Your Body Is A WonderlandJeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants YouAqualung - Pressure SuitEmbrace AshesThe Magic Numbers - Love Me Like YouStereophonics - DakotaLou Reed - Walk On The Wild SidePrimal Scream - RocksThe Pigeon Detectives - Take Her BackThe Holloways - GeneratorReverend & The Makers - Heavyweight Champion Of The WorldTravis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me?Gorillaz - Dare
― dat login (wins), Friday, 6 May 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
:)
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Friday, 6 May 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link
This sounds like the first, orchestral version of Arpeggi with a little Neil Young. If all the album is going to be filled with this gorgeously odd arrangements this will probably be better than In Rainbows.
There were rumours about them being joined by a string quartet this tour. I'd pay good money to hear 'pyramid song' and 'how to dissapear completely' with strings A small orchestra joining them would be great live, it could give some interesting variations on their old songs too if they use them the whole concert, imagine the last minutes of National Anthem or Paranoid Android live with a string section joining them!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 May 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link
I haven't heard any of the new material yet, mainly because Radiohead are an albums band and I want to hear the new album completely fresh without knowing any of the cuts on it beforehand.
― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Friday, 6 May 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
i like Daydreaming a lot but i wonder if the whole album will be nothing-y vocal melodies with beautiful orchestration?
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 6 May 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2016/05/Radiohead-2016-640x226.jpg
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Friday, 6 May 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link
Shit, is Phil a fucking vampire!?
― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Friday, 6 May 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
Kinda unfair that they made Phil's head bigger than the others
― MaresNest, Friday, 6 May 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
Coz looking hawt in the disheveled look, the others could use a little trimming to look less like hermits. Phil is indeed a vampire.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 May 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
Thom is starting to look like Beth Gibbons with facial hair.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 May 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link
leagues ahead of King of Limbs. really can't wait. this rules
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 May 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
I love to daydream, but daydreaming does nothing for me
― calstars, Friday, 6 May 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, May 6, 2016 12:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hell yes
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Saturday, 7 May 2016 05:15 (eight years ago) link
"daydreaming" reminds me a little of some caribou songs (toward the end especially) where there's some buildup and ambient elements but never fully goes into catharsis with drums and hella loudness.
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Saturday, 7 May 2016 05:18 (eight years ago) link
Apparently backwards message is "half of my life'
http://vocaroo.com/i/s18NczYOIA0P
Idk sound like some exorcist movie shit.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 7 May 2016 07:35 (eight years ago) link
I tried pitching it up also, which didn't make it any clearer but it did reveal other voice samples (probably saying the same thing) that were even lower, it just made it all more difficult to hear however.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0jI8TWUzHsI
― MaresNest, Saturday, 7 May 2016 07:59 (eight years ago) link
ugh please don't compare thus to Caribou, even if it is true. Some things are better left unsaid. Now I come to think about it, the whole problem with TKOL was that it sounded like the product of Thom sitting around listening to tons of funkless, meandering post-IDM.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Saturday, 7 May 2016 08:46 (eight years ago) link
Heaven forbid that one should compare Radiohead to a much loved and acclaimed artist that they've taken on tour, commissioned remixes from, and stated as an influence.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 7 May 2016 09:10 (eight years ago) link
I was wondering if there is anybody here who is just fully into all of Radiohead's direction post HTTT?
― MaresNest, Saturday, 7 May 2016 09:14 (eight years ago) link
Why does Cheerful Thom Yorke look like a registered sex offender, guyz?
― David Goey (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 7 May 2016 09:44 (eight years ago) link
i........really like this latest song
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Saturday, 7 May 2016 10:37 (eight years ago) link
muuuuch better than burn the witch
:D
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 7 May 2016 10:39 (eight years ago) link
― David Goey (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 7 May 2016 10:44 (55 minutes ago)
tbf hes got a way to go before he gets to this
https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/728565825033129984
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 7 May 2016 10:43 (eight years ago) link
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, May 6, 2016 1:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'd enjoy this, and I'd also enjoy them trying to be "cutting edge," but I'll be disappointed if it's an OKC retread. I like "Daydreaming" but not so much "Burn The Witch," which reminds me why I don't like mopey, pretentious pre- Kid A Radiohead
― Wimmels, Saturday, 7 May 2016 13:45 (eight years ago) link
Ha, I find Daydreaming more mopey and pretentious than Burn the Witch
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Saturday, 7 May 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
I have a feeling it won't be anything like OK Computer. I don't think Radiohead could be themselves circa 1997 even if they tried. They've spent so much time moving away from that record that I think they've forgotten how to be that band. It just wouldn't come naturally to them now.
― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Saturday, 7 May 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link
this is good
― akm, Saturday, 7 May 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
Both of the singles sound really good to me, I could hear "Daydreaming" as an opener and "Burn the Witch" as 2nd track.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 7 May 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link
defintely see the Caribou vibe in "Daydreaming", also recalls the sort of Klangfarbenmelodie'd arpeggio going on in "The Rip" by Portishead.. though it feels troubled
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 7 May 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
hoping for more IDM (percussive) elements, but something with more impact than the general vibe of TKoL
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 7 May 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
I like everything they've done since HTTT. The only two records by them which I'd personally rate below 7.0 are Amnesiac and HTTT actually.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 7 May 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
every time i listen to amnesiac i can't believe "fog" and "cuttooth" aren't on it
"cuttooth" is prob my favorite radiohead song of all time
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 May 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
the resultant fartsongs― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, November 7, 2021 3:35 PM
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, November 7, 2021 3:35 PM
disregard my previous post; i have it on good authority that this will be the title of the band's next album.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Monday, 8 November 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
like, basically confirmed. inform twitter.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Monday, 8 November 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
I actually love fitter happier and treefingers in the context of their respective albums.
Agree on hunting bears and faust arp being duds, but they’re short enough that I don’t mind them. There’s more songs in amnesiac which I find to be extremely skippable - but I tend to think very unkindly in general of that album tbh and it’s probably my least favorite next to HTTT.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 November 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link
I absolutely love the song “kid a” and wont hear this nonsense of it being a fartsong. You can throw the other two you mention to the dogs though, I don’t really care about them.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 November 2021 02:34 (two years ago) link
agree, title track from kid a has always been a keeper.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Monday, 8 November 2021 02:41 (two years ago) link
Ennh “fartsong” wasn’t meant to be a diss, what they did with “Spinning Plates” was an inspired use of an otherwise kinda-insipid song I think. I lived with a potter who intentionally put leaks in the bases of her vases. She said, “when the work is less functional, it becomes more artistic.” I dunno whether I agreed with her. Then, Hideo Kohima famously said, “games can never be art because they require functionality”— paraphrased. I think about this stuff wrt Radiohead’s “top of every list” track record, that by shooting holes in their Coldplayest moments they’re making “art”, or at least the semblance of art. “Fitter Happier” is dumb, “like a pig / in a cage / on antibiotics” is actual Pink Floyd, but it strengthens my resolve that “Paranoid Android” is one of the greatest songs ever recorded— like “Fitter Happier” kinda de-stinks the stink of “the crackle of pig skin / the yuppies networking” and let’s the song slip into my personal canon
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 8 November 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
That was some post, thank you
― akm, Monday, 8 November 2021 02:58 (two years ago) link
love this convo
i loved fitter happier for a long time. then i got a bit bored and started skipping it. then i realized that either way, it makes for the perfect lead-in to karma police and it's iconic. pretty good for the least-listened to song on the album (according to spotify at least)!
I absolutely love the song “kid a” and wont hear this nonsense of it being a fartsong.
otm. did i already mention my experience of first hearing john mayer via his cover of it, sent to me by the only guy in the dorm with long hair, over the vaunted "T1" connection that was apparently the fucking shit in 2001? he had interesting taste, and would have been a great ilxor! anyway, until i heard his version i thought of the radiohead version as kind of impenetrable or something. but mayer makes it sounds like...all his other music. so strange to go back to the original after that and suddenly hear all these soaring choruses. even today (before reading these posts), for some reason i found myself humming "we've got heads on sticks, you've got ventriloquists" in this really sweet way, like it was the most normal thing to say
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 November 2021 02:59 (two years ago) link
treefingers has raised a bit in my estimation over the years. it used to sound like flat tones to me, now I hear all the variations and different voices added and subtracted all the time. i feel like a common HS radiohead moment is when everybody's listening in the car and then it gets to treefingers. and it's like, is anyone going to make us skip this tonight.
i also have to say that i got lit 420 earlier today thought that the transition at the end of Optimistic into In Limbo is maybe underrated. when In Limbo kicks in it suddenly sounds like the lyrics in a way that is sickening and awesome
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 November 2021 03:03 (two years ago) link
It's a double transition - there's the brief "funk" rendition of "Optimistic", and then the even briefer intro to "In Limbo" before the triplet guitar arpeggi start. It's perfectly timed to lead into the second song: "Not this... and not this either... but this!"
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 8 November 2021 03:11 (two years ago) link
yeah, i love it! that little fake-out transition is 23 seconds long.
the exact number of years he was together with rachel. but how would he know that in 2000??
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 November 2021 03:14 (two years ago) link
also jordan's number think abt ittwo GOATs acknowledging each other
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 8 November 2021 03:17 (two years ago) link
(jordan retired the season ok computer was released, returns following the release of amnesiac, i just think its an underdiscussed series of events)
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 8 November 2021 03:19 (two years ago) link
anyway "kid a (the song)" is great, "fitter happier" is the "providence" of ok computer (this is Good), "treefingers" is good ambient, "hunting bears" more like "hunting for a point (and starving to death)"
i like the idea of fucking around so you know that the good shit really is the good shit
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 8 November 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
"fitter happier" is the "providence" of ok computer
yes
also WTF, WOWOWOWOW at the michael jordan connection, makes sense
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 November 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
other important dates93 - mj retires for the first time, same year as the release of pablo honey95 - mj returns once the bends comes out03 - retires for the final time when httt comes out
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 8 November 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link
9-3 = 6
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 November 2021 03:49 (two years ago) link
colin and phil sacked for mj and phil (jackson) confirmed
― Clay, Monday, 8 November 2021 03:49 (two years ago) link
paranoid android's 3-songs-in-1 vibe = a reference to the triangle offense
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 8 November 2021 03:54 (two years ago) link
― just staying (Karl Malone), Sunday, November 7, 2021 9:49 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is true but no one wants to talk about it bc they think they're too good for early elementary math facts
2+2 = 52 + 2 - nigel = 52 + 2 -(-1) = 5
again, nigel is a negative presence
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 November 2021 03:58 (two years ago) link
the transition at the end of Optimistic into In Limbo
co-sign, one of my favorite moments on any radiohead album.
Ennh “fartsong” wasn’t meant to be a diss, ― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, November 7, 2021 6:45 PM
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, November 7, 2021 6:45 PM
no, i knew exactly what you meant and i liked it! thank you for expounding, just confirmed what i got from it initially but also very well articulated! i also like that you compare THEM to coldplay and not vice versa. not being snarky, i find that genuinely funny and it makes sense to phrase it that way because at this point . . . it's kind of true.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Monday, 8 November 2021 03:58 (two years ago) link
he is "a negative one" to be around
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 November 2021 03:59 (two years ago) link
I like the fartsongs flamboyant tie goon mentions upthread. It's the tracks like Burn The Witch, Bodysnatchers and a few strange sequencing choices on HTTT which I was meaning upthread about certain (otherwise good) songs sticking out on otherwise consistent albums
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 8 November 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link
The biggest (and worst) fartsong is 'Feral'
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 8 November 2021 12:05 (two years ago) link
"bodysnatchers" doesn't really stick out at all, they make it work in the sequence very well somehow
amnesiac and httt are the albums where the sequencing is noticeably a problem & amnesiac is a real 'what could have been' because there was a lot of strong material left off the album
― ufo, Monday, 8 November 2021 12:23 (two years ago) link
In Rainbows has always felt like an excellent mini album with a strong double A-side tacked on the front of it. For me, it's 'Nude' that really kicks off that album's blissy, languid vibe whereas 15 Step and Bodysnatachers are spikey and/or blustering
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 8 November 2021 12:50 (two years ago) link
in fact I'd say those two songs sound much more like they'd fit on HTTT, so maybe I could look at them like they're transitioning from 2003 Radiohead to 2007.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 8 November 2021 12:52 (two years ago) link
Speaking of “In Limbo”: yes the transition into it is brilliant but also the sort of “digital collapse” or what feels like waves of sound washing the song away at the end is one of my favorite Radiohead outros of all time. The song just disintegrates.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 November 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
faust arp is lovely, sorry all
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 8 November 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
Yes
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 8 November 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
If I'm working and have a Fender Rhodes dialed up on ProTools, I'll add a bit of delay and play the little two-note riff from In Limbo over and over.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 8 November 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
more like fart arp
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 8 November 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
mares, that's a fun thing and something semi-related that i think about a lot is how kid a, for me, is one of the definitive *FENDER RHODES* albums. it's not all over every song, but when it is used, it's just so perfectly realized and placed within everything else. really playing to the instrument's strength.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Monday, 8 November 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
yeah that opening riff = instant calm
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 8 November 2021 23:38 (two years ago) link
also Faust Arp is filler? wtf it's insanely good and a perfect breather, the strings are magical
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 8 November 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
i haven't listened to kid a in years but don't remember the rhodes being featured on it much. there's the little riff from in limbo, the chords in morning bell, and... i think that's it?
I probably associate it more with okc because of the bitches brew-style rhodes clutter on 'subterranean homesick alien', but i don't think it's on a ton of okc songs either
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Monday, 8 November 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link
there's the live version of "everything in its right place" too (& the studio version's synth is a pretty good imitation of one)
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
yea, it has an EP-like color but some of its behaviors are not rhodes-like obv :)
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 00:10 (two years ago) link
EiiRP is Prophet 5, I believe
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 04:54 (two years ago) link
The electromechanical element of the Rhodes is hard to manufacture digitally and even with deep sampling, I've had a few different plug-ins over the years, the Arturia one is the best imho.
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 09:43 (two years ago) link
I think my favourite Rhodes moment is 'A Reminder', Jonny with his slightly self-consciously extended chords tinkling away like some sort of bell tree really makes it.
I wonder if it was ever a contender for the album but was tonally a bit too close to The Tourist and Lucky.
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 09:48 (two years ago) link
the prophet 5 also apparently shows up to imitate a rhodes again on "all i need", & again they just use the rhodes live
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 11:17 (two years ago) link
Weird, I always wondered what the low sizzle and slight wah were on the EIIRP Rhodes, now I realise it was all a lie
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 12:15 (two years ago) link
sorry for confusion re:rhodes specifics. that's why i wrote it like this:
one of the definitive *FENDER RHODES* albums
i understand there's actually not much of the actual instrument on the record, it's just that there's a ton of stuff on it that is reminiscent of the rhodes to the point where those things could played on a rhodes and nothing would be lost in translation.
was listening to a moon shaped pool while drifting off to sleep some nights ago and i was in that grey area between lucid and dreaming and i don't remember much about the things i was perceiving, but it sounded about a million times more beautiful than i remembered. when the album ended, i came to long enough to set my headphones on the nightstand and settle in properly to bed and i slept through the entire night without waking up once, a very uncommon thing for me (happens maybe one or twice per year if i had to guess). i didn't have any dreams that i remember, but i woke up the next day feeling like i had overcome something. accomplished something important. it was a very opaque, yet rewarding feeling; surely influenced by the vibe of the album. anyway.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
Except that you can't open up the filter/cutoff on a Rhodes!
This explanation makes perfect sense when listening: https://thekingofgear.com/post/630974807221075968/a-photo-of-thom-adjusting-the-prophet-5-during-the
Two different takes of the Prophet 5, one panned to each side, so you get that sound where one of them has the cutoff turned up high while the other still has a more Rhodes-y/squarewave-y tone.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
there's a ton of stuff on it that is reminiscent of the rhodes to the point where those things could played on a rhodes and nothing would be lost in translation.
I actually think it's fairly important to EIIRP that it's a distorted reference point and not an actual Rhodes
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1w_llg3VI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Vry4Zsdes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF0sWb4hmpM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqvkSgur8Fg
the smile streamed some rehearsals today. two run throughs of "look at all the pretty lights", & one each of "free in the knowledge" and "you will never work in television again" - only the latter was played at glastonbury. interesting to hear "free in the knowledge" because it shows they're carrying on with the neil young-esque acoustic side of the last decade of radiohead as well as the jammy side that's been predominant in all the smile material so far.
jonny also said the album is almost done - they're just sorting through the material & figuring out an album tracklist & deciding if they need to put any more work in. it sounds like the thom/jonny dynamic is thom is the perfectionist who wants to keep tweaking the details forever, while jonny is less concerned and would be happier if they released things more often.
― ufo, Friday, 3 December 2021 09:31 (two years ago) link