Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

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.

I need to make my peace with the fact that I just wish every Radiohead song sounded like Autechre's "Second Scepe" + Greenwood guitars

Which radiohead song comes closest to that ideal?

and theeeeeeeere's the new DN

its on itunes now

its on radiohead.com now too

happy mother's day :)

2 extra tracks in september

looks like their website crashed

Eggs and the marketing board behind them

are you a blue?

http://www.amoonshapedpool.com/

re: alphabetization of tracklist

sounds like the result of a really frustrating process to determine the running order

or a Pet Shop Boys influence.

studio version of True Love Waits is disappointing, it's very minimal but not really in an interesting way like what they did with Videotape

The album title is crap, by the way... it has a really naff late '90s landfill indie vibe to it.

A moon shaped pool would just be a circle, right?

Radiohead - Circle

Maybe Thom thought of it during a nicotine tinged smoke inhalation break.

So, I purchased the vinyl, but was not given a download link. Do I have to wait until June to hear it?!

TRUE LOVE WAITS

Considered buying the CD but a) no free MP3s and b) $10 for shipping. FUUUUUCK YOUUUUU. I'll wait a month, get it from Amazon and probably get the MP3s then via their AutoRip service. In the meantime, I'll wait for it to turn up on Spotify.

So, I purchased the vinyl, but was not given a download link. Do I have to wait until June to hear it?!

― Austin

Bought vinyl and already received my digital download.

First impressions: The album is less orchestral heavy than I thought based on the first two tracks. Glass Eyes does use orchestral arrangements and it sounds gorgeous on first listen. Ful Stop and Identikit were definitely improved on the live version, they both sound less rockier, more psychedelic, Identikit guitars even sound balearic. They're my least favorite on first listen though... kinda wish I hadn't heard those live versions before I think they've tainted my enjoyment for them.

Oh and Numbers / Silent Spring and Present Tense are of course amazing. Best songs in here imho.

imo radiohead is a good band who makes good music

Halfway through, this feels like the opposite of TKOL to me so far - obsessively performed, meticulous and maximalist. No one will accuse them of having butchered or half-assed these songs.

Someone has already said as much that they've butchered 'True Love Waits'

I don't know, though... haven't heard the LP yet.

I also just read someone refer to this as "empty and minimal" so I guess there's no limit to the possible rongness

I'm surprised by how close Desert Island Disk, The Numbers and Present Tense are to Thom's solo renditions, since most of the King of Limbs era tracks he played solo beforehand had drastically different arrangements

It's a bit too tastefully done, so far.

What you gain on control, you lose on the spontaneity.

I loved King of Limbs but yes, sound-wise this is so lush and not claustrophobic at all which is something that they had a problem with in almost all of their recordings... the instrumentation for the arrangementalso s seems to be natural for the most part this time around... might be one of the most beautifully sounding albums I've heard since Samamidon's All Is Well.

I don't know if I'd call it maximalist, there something that feels sparse and minimal about it, I think it might be about he composition and not the actual sounds of it... but I think it works on its favor. With simpler compositions you get a chance for fuller arrangements to dominate the song.

Someone has already said as much that they've butchered 'True Love Waits'

i mean i already have the other one, bring on the butchering

It's something that the Samamidon album also has btw... very simple songs that are made excellent by Nico Muhly's incredible arrangements.

I don't get people who think they butchered TLW. I'd heard so many live covers and unimpressive versions with arrangements by souncloud/youtube users that I had lost faith Radiohead could ever do something interesting with it.

I like it but I also didn't mind what they did to "Videotape" and this feels v similar