Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

No download with the standard CD, according to the official store:

https://amsp.wasteheadquarters.com/products/cd

Spectre's disappeared off iTunes as a standalone single - I'm sure you used to be able to get it?

ha..

* (This is) a piece of a Radiohead ½ inch master tape from an actual recording session.
The tape degrades over time and becomes unplayable. We thought rather than it ending up as landfill we would cut it up and make it useful as a part of the special edition. A new life for some obsolete technology...
Each loop contains about ¾ of a second of audio - which could be from any era in the band's recording past going back to Kid A. You may have silence, you may have coloured leader tape, you may have a chorus... It's a crapshoot.
We have copies. Don't worry.

Not listened yet. I'd like the vinyl version.. Why can't I get a download before I get my record? I Don't want to buy it twice!

finally radiohead release the dad-rock album we all knew they had in them

If you think this is dadrock, then... fuck knows. I mean it's not abrasive dissonant FUCK YOU techno noise to alienate and horrify, but dadrock is Travis, Bread, Coldplay. This is not that, at all, even slightly. Yes, it's kind of absolutely identifiable as Radiohead and sounds exactly as you'd expect a Radiohead record to sound right now given everything that's gone before, but I don't think they could have done anything else after 30 years together.

It really ought to be "moon-shaped" though, right?

Nah, they're talking about a person named moon (Keith?) and how they influenced the game of billiards

lol

"He sure did. His influence can also be seen in modern ping-pong"

Ful Stop and The Numbers clear early highlights. This is probably the most texturally homogenous of their albums, individual songs are taking a while to coalesce out of the hazy lushness, but this is not necessarily a criticism when the textures are this rich.

While not "Dad rock", I could actually see my dad really enjoying this album, but that's mostly due to the fact that my dad's favorite album is Days of Future Passed by the Moody Blues.

I think rusho was joking about the walter becker "credit" joke

which is a joke aimed at the venn diagram of which I am the exact center lol

My dad loathes Radiohead so I can't describe it as dad rock.

my dad would enjoy a moon shaped pool, or at least a moon shaped hot tub

Man, this album. And I've only gotten through Identikit. I was hearing it wrong at first because the way they drop everything in makes it sound like the first upbeat is the 1, had to rewind it a couple times after that.

Love how the mix slowly morphs on 'Ful Stop', with the drums and vocals being sublimated at first and gradually coming into focus...

xpost - I think getting you to hear it wrong is the intention.

Oh I know, and I like it.

love this album

I'm just now getting around to listening to Daydreaming. I'll get to the album in due time.

I don't really have a place in my life for music like Daydreaming -- I'm 36 years old, and after a LOT of work and reflection I've managed to get to a point where I basically like my life and who I am, and I don't really need to listen to stuff that makes me purposelessly sad.

Joy at sadness: sadness at joy. Still as valid at 36 as it is any other time of life.

That's such a strange attitude to me. Do you not watch movies or read books that cause you to empathize with other people's emotions?

Not saying I avoid anything sad, but I find Radiohead so flatly and aimlessly sad.

I just have lost my patience for generalized ennui.

Daydreaming is kind of boring aside from the little sound effect flourishes in the background

i like daydreaming but it's not really a standout track for me - kind of surprised it was chosen as a single.

it'll be interesting to see alternate tracklistings that people make for this

Daydreaming is a sustained mood piece. It doesn't sound 'sad' to me. It's chilled out and reflective in the same way a lot of In Rainbows is, or How To Disappear Completely.

Daydreaming is a standout

How To Disappear Completely builds in intensity throughout its running time; Daydreaming, based on one listen, is extremely static for most of its run time with most of the interesting things happening in the background.

That's what I like about it!

Actually listening again, there are two distinct points of musical development in Daydreaming; the bit around 2:17 when the polyrhythms resolve into 6/8 (which then snaps back onto 3 against 2 for the verse) and the bit around 5:02 when the strings come back in on top of the repeated 6/8 theme and build a slightly bigger crescendo. Also I found it less boring the second time but that was partially because I skipped directly to the bits where I knew a change was coming, lol.

that's also what i like about it; the things that would typically move the most don't move much at all, so the arrangement/environment takes over

I like the way the strings emulate the snoring sound.

you should listen to the rest of the album DJP; daydreaming makes more sense in the context of the rest of it

Nice album, I think. Contemplative, very focused and tense.

Yeah it's not my favourite as an individual song, but it's a kind of announcement, or an opening up, after the relatively straightforward Burn the Witch.

xpost

Enormous Led Zep feels in The Numbers - feels like the orchestral entry in Stairway.

It was reminding me really strongly of some 70s rock song but I couldn't put my finger on which. Maybe it's just Zep? The strings are a little reminiscent of "Kashmir" too.

I was thinking full moon, but maybe they mean crescent moon? That would be cool, though tough for laps.

Guitar riff in the numbers is v neil young

I had assumed crescent moon. Otherwise, it would just be round.
xp

Oh, Neil Young makes sense. I was getting real flashbacks to Canadian classic rock radio.

Only listened to it once so far and am planning to do so again later. Was pretty good, great in parts. As ever sometimes they get a bit bland, and one track seemed to me like a retread of Optimistic with more strings. I forget which one.

the moon only has one shape so I am sure it is a spherical pool with craters.

along with the Jonny Greenwood point of reference, some of the big string swells recall Beck (Paper Tiger, Mutations etc.), as well as the general soft-edged, enveloping quality of the sound worlds.

i'm a dad fuck the world!!!!!!!!

digging this on first listen :)

There's no hyphen though, so maybe it is the moon that's shaping the pool, not a pool shaped like a moon.

so the moon shaped pool is the ocean then. we solved it.

Oh duh