Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

:)

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

I like everything they've done since HTTT. The only two records by them which I'd personally rate below 7.0 are Amnesiac and HTTT actually.

every time i listen to amnesiac i can't believe "fog" and "cuttooth" aren't on it

"cuttooth" is prob my favorite radiohead song of all time

this is exactly the right time for them to lean hard into their neil young and strings obsession and come up with something significant and detailed that makes their back catalogue look more and more like lightweight artrock.

with TKOL, while an interesting capsule experiment, they've always reacted against the last thing they did. have the feeling now they wouldn't spend the time working they did and return this confidently if they arent sitting on something that is going to (re)define them as a band in 2016.

not long to find out. hope i'm right.

It's been roughly the same gap between releases as between In Rainbows and The King of Limbs though, hasn't it?

Relistened to the whole Kid A / Amnesiac / b-sides era this morning. Just a remarkably fertile period.

I like "Fog" and "Cuttooth" a lot but to me they don't quite fit either album's vibe

also I was hoping these were still up and they are

^^^^ those are the reason i'm a music writer lol

Those got published once a week for a while, yes? I seem to remember waiting breathlessly for each post.

Yeah, it's incredible how that period turned out to be so fertile given how problematic the sessions were.

By the way, I love the fact that this is apparently coming out tomorrow and nobody has any idea what the title is... or is it self-titled, or what?

the rumor is it's called dawn chorus but that's just the name of the company they registered last year

I really hope it isn't, if only so I won't have to endure a million hacks calling it their "pastoral" album

it may well have been, but i get the impression that this record has a much stronger weight of expectation for some reason. the 5/6-piece gamely exploring the confines of a rock band must surely be a dry well to them as well as us now. they have never ever been a band for any shred of self-confident braggadocio, but the faint strains of it in their maneuvers now i reckon bode well. dare i say, even exciting?

and of course they arent going to name it until the whole package is ready. even back when they released the title "amnesiac", the press wrung their hands over how it would never escape the shadow of the similarly titled Green Day album. imagine the outpourings that would happen today. bet you $10 that dawn chorus is just cheeky misdirection. theyre not that careless.

I'd say this release has a weight of expectation about it because The King of Limbs got a mixed reception and people are seeing if they can still pull a release out of the bag that stands equal with the better albums in their discography, or whether they're on some irreversible downhill slide.

I'm sure 'The Dawn Chorus' is one of the names of the new tracks, or so I remember reading?

Daydreaming itself sounds like it's channelling that whole late 80s ambient post-prog thing - somewhere between the middle section of Hounds of Love and Spirit of Eden and maybe some Peter Gabriel that I've never heard. I'd be surprised if the whole album was like that.

the middle section of Hounds of Love and Spirit of Eden and maybe some Peter Gabriel

If you are secretly street teaming for the new Radiohead, sir, you just got me to buy the deluxe edition

The more I listen to "Burn The Witch," however, the more I think I dislike it. I also dislike the lyrics: we're still making floating / burning witch metaphors, really?

But I am really loving "Daydreaming" and sorta want to go to a movie theater just to maybe catch the video on the big screen

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)

paranoid android's 3-songs-in-1 vibe = a reference to the triangle offense

9-3 = 6

― just staying (Karl Malone), Sunday, November 7, 2021 9:49 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is true but no one wants to talk about it bc they think they're too good for early elementary math facts

2+2 = 5
2 + 2 - nigel = 5
2 + 2 -(-1) = 5

again, nigel is a negative presence

the transition at the end of Optimistic into In Limbo

co-sign, one of my favorite moments on any radiohead album.

Ennh “fartsong” wasn’t meant to be a diss,

― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, November 7, 2021 6:45 PM

no, i knew exactly what you meant and i liked it! thank you for expounding, just confirmed what i got from it initially but also very well articulated! i also like that you compare THEM to coldplay and not vice versa. not being snarky, i find that genuinely funny and it makes sense to phrase it that way because at this point . . . it's kind of true.

he is "a negative one" to be around

I like the fartsongs flamboyant tie goon mentions upthread. It's the tracks like Burn The Witch, Bodysnatchers and a few strange sequencing choices on HTTT which I was meaning upthread about certain (otherwise good) songs sticking out on otherwise consistent albums

The biggest (and worst) fartsong is 'Feral'

"bodysnatchers" doesn't really stick out at all, they make it work in the sequence very well somehow

amnesiac and httt are the albums where the sequencing is noticeably a problem & amnesiac is a real 'what could have been' because there was a lot of strong material left off the album

In Rainbows has always felt like an excellent mini album with a strong double A-side tacked on the front of it. For me, it's 'Nude' that really kicks off that album's blissy, languid vibe whereas 15 Step and Bodysnatachers are spikey and/or blustering

in fact I'd say those two songs sound much more like they'd fit on HTTT, so maybe I could look at them like they're transitioning from 2003 Radiohead to 2007.

Speaking of “In Limbo”: yes the transition into it is brilliant but also the sort of “digital collapse” or what feels like waves of sound washing the song away at the end is one of my favorite Radiohead outros of all time. The song just disintegrates.

faust arp is lovely, sorry all

Yes

If I'm working and have a Fender Rhodes dialed up on ProTools, I'll add a bit of delay and play the little two-note riff from In Limbo over and over.

more like fart arp

mares, that's a fun thing and something semi-related that i think about a lot is how kid a, for me, is one of the definitive *FENDER RHODES* albums. it's not all over every song, but when it is used, it's just so perfectly realized and placed within everything else. really playing to the instrument's strength.

yeah that opening riff = instant calm

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.