Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

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)

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.

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.