Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Just tweeted: "Our album will be released digitally on May 8th."

And the email I just got says physical versions will be out June 17.

No title or any other info, though.

I was half expecting them to release it track by track over several weeks.

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

On first listen, I really like 'Daydreaming'. Very In Rainbows. This is what Radiohead are good at these days.

Underwhelming for me, a bit wispy and structureless. Certainly some pretty sections.

those snoring noises at the end... they turn into a backwards voice. what's it saying?

whoa i really loved that

those snoring noises at the end... they turn into a backwards voice. what's it saying?

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?

those snoring noises at the end... they turn into a backwards voice. what's it saying?

― 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

I hope he's saying 'fremme neppa vennette'

I'm excited about this album based on these two songs. It's good stuff.

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.

The first RH video to be released on a Friday?

Video meets the vibe of Anderson's own "Punch-Drunk Love".

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.

those snoring noises at the end... they turn into a backwards voice. what's it saying?

― 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'm working on ProTools at home today so I just grabbed the clip and flipped it, results are inconclusive

Releasing an album on a Monday like the good lord intended.

love Daydreaming, love it so much. if we re polled them, it would be in my top 10.

Disc: 1
The Hoosiers - Worried About Ray
Groove Armada - Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control)
Scouting For Girls - She's So Lovely
Mark Ronson featuring Daniel Merriweather - Stop Me
Blur - Tender
Lily Allen - LDN
Corinne Bailey Rae - Like A Star
Alanis Morissette - Crazy (James Michael Mix)
The Zutons - Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?
The View - Wasted Little DJ's
The Thrills - One Horse Town
Mumm-ra - She's Got You High
Starsailor - Silence Is Easy
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Badly Drawn Boy - Something To Talk About
R.E.M - What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
Paolo Nutini - Jenny Don't Be Hasty
Damien Rice - Cannonball
Peter, Bjorn And John (featuring Victoria Bergsman) - Young Folks
Disc: 2
Newton Faulkner - Dream Catch Me
The Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car)
Coldplay - Yellow
Jack Peñate - Torn On The Platform
KT Tunstall - Other Side Of The World
Manic Street Preachers featuring Nina Persson - Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
Kings Of Leon - On Call
John Mayer - Your Body Is A Wonderland
Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You
Aqualung - Pressure Suit
Embrace – Ashes
The Magic Numbers - Love Me Like You
Stereophonics - Dakota
Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
Primal Scream - Rocks
The Pigeon Detectives - Take Her Back
The Holloways - Generator
Reverend & The Makers - Heavyweight Champion Of The World
Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
Gorillaz - Dare

:)

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!

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.

i like Daydreaming a lot but i wonder if the whole album will be nothing-y vocal melodies with beautiful orchestration?

http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2016/05/Radiohead-2016-640x226.jpg

Shit, is Phil a fucking vampire!?

Kinda unfair that they made Phil's head bigger than the others

Coz looking hawt in the disheveled look, the others could use a little trimming to look less like hermits. Phil is indeed a vampire.

Thom is starting to look like Beth Gibbons with facial hair.

leagues ahead of King of Limbs. really can't wait. this rules

I love to daydream, but daydreaming does nothing for me

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, May 6, 2016 12:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hell yes

"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.

Apparently backwards message is "half of my life'

http://vocaroo.com/i/s18NczYOIA0P

Idk sound like some exorcist movie shit.

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

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.

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.

I was wondering if there is anybody here who is just fully into all of Radiohead's direction post HTTT?

Why does Cheerful Thom Yorke look like a registered sex offender, guyz?

i........really like this latest song

muuuuch better than burn the witch

:D

Why does Cheerful Thom Yorke look like a registered sex offender, guyz?

― 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

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, 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

Ha, I find Daydreaming more mopey and pretentious than Burn the Witch

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.

this is good

Both of the singles sound really good to me, I could hear "Daydreaming" as an opener and "Burn the Witch" as 2nd track.

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

hoping for more IDM (percussive) elements, but something with more impact than the general vibe of TKoL

very high

Vaguely recall talk of scaling back touring when AMSP came out, they didn’t do many shows in America in 2016 iirc but they have hit the road since then more than they let on. Also you just never know - they’re all 50 or approaching, and the gaps between albums get longer and longer.

I think that every time they say it might be their last album, but that's just what they need to tell themselves in order to do it.

flappy you will see them

revisited this the other day and it's def my favorite radiohead album after in rainbows. the subduedness of it allows them to breach a different atmosphere than their records usually occupy, especially the way their interplay sometimes takes on the tremble and glow of a campfire on "desert island disk" and "present tense," instruments flickering gently against an enormous darkness. i love that they lined up all the most intense songs in the middle, and the sequencing overall is p outstanding, it makes each song feel like a doorway to the next

Definitely in my Top 5 Radiohead albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hgVihWjK2c

this was the best thing to come out of it imo

I love Thom's little pre-song stances there

and yes the sequencing is really something; normally putting a droning ballad like "Daydreaming" as your second track would be a pacing disaster, but it's a necessary readjustment following "Burn the Witch", which is such an outlier that it only makes sense as the opener. I bet that was a tough call!

Album gets so much better after the first track

It's aged well (so far) imo

I still like it, but at this stage it's my second least favourite after The King of Limbs.

It's my fifth favourite in a ranking I just did in my head.

this album is so good that i can't even rate it.

it's like, ya i love amnesiac and kid a so much and those records changed my life so much in so many different ways. and in rainbows! that album!

but it's like, even with all that. . . i still consider moon shaped pool to be something else entirely.

its still my #2 after kid a

It came out right as my 20 year marriage / 25 year relationship was breaking down so as you can imagine it hits pretty hard at times. I almost never play Burn the Witch - it's a fine song but it's not what I want when I cue up AMSP.

I said it back then (probably said it up-thread) but "Burn The Witch" sounds like it's from another album entirely, and even though I don't dislike it, it's a total misstep as a first track.

Give this a try: start the album with 'Daydreaming,' and slot in 'Ill Wind' where it fits in alphabetically between 'Identikit' and 'The Numbers'. (Relegate 'Burn The Witch' to a bonus track, with 'Spectre'.). It makes a really fantastic record almost perfect, at least in terms of coherence and flow.

That version of 'A Moon Shaped Pool' is my second favorite Radiohead album (as a nerd who bought 'The Bends' on day-of-release and made b-side mix tapes for my friends through high-school). Heck, might be my #1 favorite...

There should be more albums with the tracks sequenced in alphabetical order, IMO.

tbh I like "Burn the Witch" as opener and I feel like they drew straws to see whether "Ill Wind" or "Identikit" would make the proper tracklist cause I find them quite similar

I said it back then (probably said it up-thread) but "Burn The Witch" sounds like it's from another album entirely, and even though I don't dislike it, it's a total misstep as a first track.

May or may not be musically related, they are known recyclers of titles (e.g. Reckoner). That is neat though!

ooh wonder what became of "fela kuti thing"

I bet it ended up as "Feral"

or actually "Bloom" feels a bit more Fela to me

"burn the witch" had been floating around since at least httt, there was an early draft of the lyrics on their website at the time. thom also mentioned it on the radiohead blog a bunch of times from 2005-2007, including posting parts of the lyrics and mentioning that jonny was writing orchestration for it. there were even a few times on the in rainbows tour where thom played the opening chords to tease it in response to audience shouts for it, only to joke that they'll play it when they have an orchestra with them.

Relistening after a long time, on headphones. What a gorgeous record, damn.

Love the echoes of Jean-Claude Vannier and Nick Drake throughout.

elided your line to "Jean-Claude Van Damme" for a delightful moment there

That, too!

All the good albums are influenced by Jean Claude Van Damme

A Moon Shaped Punch

it can be seen as the "JCVD" of their oeuvre

1. Kick the Witch
2. Daykicking
3. Kicks Dark
4. Desert Island Kicks
5. Ful Kick
6. Punched Eyes
7. Indentikick
8. The Punchers
9. Present Tense Situation
10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Punch
11. True Love Kicks

"what new could anyone possibly have to save about this album?", he thought to himself as he opened the thread.

"how foolish my thinking has been, indeed!", he said aloud upon reading the contents of the new answers.

9. Present Tense Situation

On reflection this is not up to my high standards. I might need some help with it.

Tense Kick

Timecop 2: Present Tense

Presenting Punch

presentensity

Punch head

Some classics from the back catalogue did hint at this new direction -

Every kick in its Right Place
Roundhouse of Cards
Subterranean Spinkick Alien

It goes back even further. Who doesn't remember Creep Up On Your Adversary And Sweep The Leg

Yeah their second album also hinted at the influence

(Nice Kick)
My Iron Fist
Bullet Proof... I know I Am
Black Belt
Street Spirit (Punch Out)

When Thom Yorke’s first solo album was announced critics and fans where nervous about the title “The Eraser” hinting he was going for a Schwarzenegger influence to separate his own brand, but relaxed when the tracklist rolled out and Black Eagle, Punches for Peace, And it Kicked All Night meant the Van Damme influence was still firm in his heart.

A Punchup at a Wedding

Street Spirit (Punch Out)

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

Sorry, stupid autocorrect. This is actually called “Street Fighter (Punch Out)”

Kyxomatosis

Pop (Your Shoulder Out Of Joint Then Snap Your Neck By Twisting Your Head Between My Palms) Is Dead

The Kick Of Limbs

Kick A

Don't get my kicks hangin out the 15th floor