Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

lol @ radiohead releasing an album of presumably intense and introspective art-rock while literally everyone in the uk is having a picnic

Two more hours. Get hyped! Don't know if this is fake but apparently if you own an Amazon echo the title, tracklist and 15 sec samples are available right now. 'A MOON SHAPED POOL' is supposed to be the title... don't love the name but hey True Love Waits!

https://m.imgur.com/a/uIAmh

I'm not the world's biggest Radiohead fan but I love that we can still all get excited about the same thing happening at the same time every once in a while

(Beyonce doesn't count)

why not

Yeah, why not.

*refreshes refreshes refreshes*

lol wow yeah they legit recorded "true love waits" for this. wacky

this is out...on Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Radiohead_A_Moon_Shaped_Pool?id=B57cafi5cj2vwsy6a7e2a3ylyxm&hl=en_GB

Seems it's official, still think the track order will change since it's arranged alphabetically. So, mods should probably rename this thread?

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)

it's kinda surprising something would slip up like this.

also surprising that Burn the Witch is the opener (and weird that it's alphabetical like that), and wow, True Love Waits. apparently The Numbers is Silent Spring?

I highly doubt that's the actual order

Yeah The Numbers is Silent Spring. Dissapointed Skirting on the Surface got left out it was one of my favorites of the new ones. Still not sold on Identikit the chorus 'broken hearts make it rain' from live versions was very awkward imho. The rest of the song has some interesting moments but that chorus Idk... Starts and ends very abruptly let's see what they did with it in the studio.

lol wow yeah they legit recorded "true love waits" for this. wacky

I find their refusal to let old songs die endearing

now where's Lift

cool album cover

lol Google Play took it down

Oh it's off Google Play now... You could even buy it and download a sec ago.

Lift was actually part of the sessions, I thought it would definitely make it this time around. Maybe a b-side?

It would fit with the orchestration-heavy theme, I would think.

lol wow yeah they legit recorded "true love waits" for this. wacky

I find their refusal to let old songs die endearing

now where's Lift

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.)

yeah just wait until they put out "i promise" on a studio record

Prefer Dawn Chorus as title but whatever

why not

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Yeah, why not.

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at the risk of what certainly has the potential to be a very unfortunate derail, because not everyone is a poptimist consumed with celebrity culture and vacuous pop music?

Anyway, new album discussion!

Did anyone manage to download it before it disappeared?

vacuous pop music

Ding! I knew this would be the answer, but I just wanted you to type it for the record.

Right, I'm a cliche. Look at me in my Foo Fighters t-shirt hating Taylor Swift and wishing people still wrote "real songs, maaan." You got me

I'm listening to it now, the tracklist seems to be the correct order - Decks Dark segues into Desert Island Disk

Hahahaha

Tracklist I saw was alphabetical. Surely that can't be right

I thought this title would make good anagrams but the best I can come up with is Shampoo'n a Poodle

this album has a weirdly laid back sensibility for them so far

apparently the alphabetical tracklist is correct lol

So where is it? I was looking here but obviously wrong place: https://store-us.wasteheadquarters.com/

19 more minutes till the official release.

xp Google Play accidentally launched it early, then took it back down.

I need to make my peace with the fact that I just wish every Radiohead song sounded like Autechre's "Second Scepe" + Greenwood guitars

Which radiohead song comes closest to that ideal?

and theeeeeeeere's the new DN

its on itunes now

its on radiohead.com now too

happy mother's day :)

2 extra tracks in september

looks like their website crashed

Eggs and the marketing board behind them

are you a blue?

http://www.amoonshapedpool.com/

re: alphabetization of tracklist

sounds like the result of a really frustrating process to determine the running order

or a Pet Shop Boys influence.

studio version of True Love Waits is disappointing, it's very minimal but not really in an interesting way like what they did with Videotape

The album title is crap, by the way... it has a really naff late '90s landfill indie vibe to it.

A moon shaped pool would just be a circle, right?

Radiohead - Circle

Maybe Thom thought of it during a nicotine tinged smoke inhalation break.

So, I purchased the vinyl, but was not given a download link. Do I have to wait until June to hear it?!

TRUE LOVE WAITS

Considered buying the CD but a) no free MP3s and b) $10 for shipping. FUUUUUCK YOUUUUU. I'll wait a month, get it from Amazon and probably get the MP3s then via their AutoRip service. In the meantime, I'll wait for it to turn up on Spotify.

So, I purchased the vinyl, but was not given a download link. Do I have to wait until June to hear it?!

― Austin

Bought vinyl and already received my digital download.

First impressions: The album is less orchestral heavy than I thought based on the first two tracks. Glass Eyes does use orchestral arrangements and it sounds gorgeous on first listen. Ful Stop and Identikit were definitely improved on the live version, they both sound less rockier, more psychedelic, Identikit guitars even sound balearic. They're my least favorite on first listen though... kinda wish I hadn't heard those live versions before I think they've tainted my enjoyment for them.