Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

like radiohead's kid a redefined rock music the swimmers would defy conventional notions of what a lap swimming is

swimming in a circle doing an Australian Crawl seems hard, I can't even think about Butterfly or Backstroke. Overground circular pools are awesome though, I used to enjoy having everyone just go around the edge trying to create the biggest whilpool we possibly could. it never worked as well as you wanted.

I picture a much bigger circular pool at least 50m in diameter. although an olympic sized circular pool at 100m would be blow my stupid mind.

oh wait, I have it all wrong. an olympic pool would be 50m diameter. while a standard pool I mostly swam in for HS swim meets was 25m.

don't mind me.

the guitar part on "Desert Island Disk" is totally Bert Jansch, love it

I wasn't sure which acoustic player it made me think of most. I even thought of acoustic Steve Howe a little. Jansch might work.

I still haven't heard this yet - the weather's been too nice and to be quite honest with you it doesn't feel like the optimum time of year to appreciate a new Radiohead album. I've been keeping up with opinions of it online though, and I've found myself being reminded on just how much fucking hard work it is to dig through a zillion over-inflated "best thing eva!"/Patrick Bateman type posts from Radiohead die-hards. This is happening much more elsewhere than here, thankfully, and seems to happen every time this band release a record. It's one of those things I keep forgetting about when Radiohead are dormant/working on something, but now the album's out and it's like "oh god, it's this shit again" ...

Also: 4.02 average on RYM already! I'm sure the record's good, but I don't expect it to be "best album of all time" type of stuff, and only a day after release!

It's probably the sunniest Radiohead album in fairness.

heart shaped moon pool box

Also: 4.02 average on RYM already! I'm sure the record's good, but I don't expect it to be "best album of all time" type of stuff, and only a day after release!

It'll sink.

There's always backlash.

There's now a lukewarm 60 on the Metacritic page.

it begins...

RYM scores always start high, probably because early voters are more likely to be fans.

I keep imagining this thread is called "Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Poll"

I've read more than a few folks say it sounds like a "final" record... does it honestly really give off that kind of vibe? I can't help but wonder how many more albums this band have left in 'em.

I get "fifth from final" record vibes from this

I get fart vibes from it

jk. on track one now...really good opener

*emulates your vibes with strings*

omg at "Daydreaming"

"Daydreaming" is terrific

Hearing some Nick Drake-ian "Three Hours" vibes in the acoustic playing on "Desert Island Disk". Also hearing strong echoes of Scott Walker's "Boy Child" string arrangements on "Glass Eyes".

Neanderthal, please keep posting your impressions!

the 'final' thing crossed my mind with them finally recording true love waits; kind of a housecleaning, going back and taking care of some forgotten stuff. but I doubt it'll be the last one.

I was not expecting 'Present Tense' to be a samba.

this is exactly the kind of radiohead I've been waiting for. thanks radiohead

I'm actually surprised they've revisited 'True Love Waits', especially since there's technically been an officially released version of it available to buy for the last 15 years.

This band have such a backlog of material.

Maybe it means something

The ocean is a moon shaped pool. This shaping action is Tidal. A Moon Shaped Pool is available on Tidal. Walter Becker plays on A Moon Shaped Pool. Lemonade is a Tidal exclusive. Walter Becker is "Becky with the good hair."

Loving this.

It's the most they've ever sounded like Hex.

There's an idea. People keep saying late Talk Talk but that works better.

Bark Psychosis! That's the band I've been trying to think of! Yes!

Oh, now I like it even more...

Neanderthal, please keep posting your impressions!

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ran out of time and had to stop listening. tomorrow's another day!

loved pretty much every track I heard though. got halfway through I think.

I wish this was terrible so I could call it 'A Moon Shaped Poo' /13yo

"He Pools Clouds"

Stop.

Moon Shaped Pool:

Could be, also, physical music media (LP or CD)

And/or an eclipse (bonus Floyd points)

It's a shitty title.

It's not that bad.

Someone could do a banging house remix with those chiming synth chords at the start of Tinker Tailor...

A Poon shaped Moule

Sorry, did someone say stop?

I want to have this on CD; I also want to listen to the album today. But I have no interest in paying for the download and the CD. I don't understand the strategy behind the delayed release, other than "maybe people will pay twice".

Shit isn't it? This Mexican music blog has a free (and legal, as far as I can tell) stream that works for me:

http://mexicoindie.net/2016/05/stream-radiohead-a-moon-shaped-pool/

I bloody love this album. This is def radiohead's 'Avalon'.

I'm sure there's some degree of strategy behind the staggering, but may it not also be because of manufacturing times for the physical versions? I don't know about the feasibility of being able to have the CDs & vinyl ready at the point of digital release if you want to maintain secrecy on the details of the album, which they clearly did.

Yeah, but if I buy the CD several weeks in advance I'd expect an immediate download, in mp3 format at least, if not 24bit wav.

Reminds me of either Aphex Twin's Syro or Boards Of Canada's Tomorrow's Harvest (I can't recall precisely which and perhaps it was both) arriving at our record shop in boxes from the pressing plant stickered with manufacturing labels with fake artist name/album title and catalogue numbers, so they must have been pressed using fictitious info from Warp to try and prevent leaks.

Oh, yes, I absolutely agree with that! That's a sly and disappointing move on their part.

If you've already ordered and paid for the CD, or committed to spending money on it, it should be extremely easy to find yourself a digital version through other means. It's only one of the biggest releases of the year.

Yeah, I'd have no qualms about that.

Oh, I know. There's also at least one free & legal stream of the whole album out there (link posted above).

I was just a bit annoyed that, after paying for the CD upfront I'd have to wait, while those who bought the download get it straight away. There's no real justification for this other than trying to get me to buy it twice ...

Or trying to get you to buy the expensive special edition, which was the only physical pre-order to come with an immediate download included. Which I did, as it ended up looking like the best deal, partly for that reason.