Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

also Faust Arp is filler? wtf it's insanely good and a perfect breather, the strings are magical

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

there's the live version of "everything in its right place" too (& the studio version's synth is a pretty good imitation of one)

yea, it has an EP-like color but some of its behaviors are not rhodes-like obv :)

EiiRP is Prophet 5, I believe

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.

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.

the prophet 5 also apparently shows up to imitate a rhodes again on "all i need", & again they just use the rhodes live

Weird, I always wondered what the low sizzle and slight wah were on the EIIRP Rhodes, now I realise it was all a lie

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.

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.

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

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.