Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

you could also put real hair where walter's hair and beard would be. the kids would have to search for diving sticks in the tangles of walter's hair how cool would that be?

I'm suddenly haunted by http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xiiXuDexL.jpg

xxpost - eazy - good thought leading on vinyl pool graphics that would be very cool

Maybe it's about the really awesome swimming pool in Thom Yorke's back garden. Radiohead pool parties are legendary.

i'm a dad fuck the world!!!!!!!!

― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, May 9, 2016 11:48 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

took me a few scans to reparse this to something other than "I'm going to dad-fuck the world!!!"

Signed up for a month of tidal for this, beyonce, and prince. I feel so manipulated. Listening to Beyonce first because this experience is sweet and sour but not at all moon shaped.

this album is sooo mellow. i like it. so where and when can i buy a digital copy of this? (i havent been reading this thread in case this has been mentioned already)

believe it is everywhere except spotify. link to radiohead store is on their twitter.

the radiohead store was really easy to use

it is still under construction, but there is a guestbook you can sign at the bottom

did i mess up by getting this on itunes

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

the tidal app shows circular album artwork that spins slowly as the music plays as if you've purchased a shit cd player from Sharper Image

spins at 3 rpm for some reason

a perfectly round pool would be awesome. I've never seen one. if a bunch of people were swimming laps, it would be like a figure 8 race car track, so exciting! and dangerous!

why wouldn't everyone just swim around the perimeter?

you're right, though, this is awesome
http://c.shld.net/rpx/i/s/i/spin/image/spin_prod_944764112?hei=245&wid=245&op_sharpen=1&qlt=85

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!

― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, May 9, 2016 6:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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"