A Moon Shaped Pool, the new Radiohead album is out
A Moon Shaped Pool is eclectic alternative band, Radiohead’s ninth studio album and it was released yesterday, Sunday, 8 May 2016.
The album is available on the band’s own website, iTunes and Amazon for purchase/download and can also be streamed by subscribers on TIDAL and Apple Music.
Interestingly enough A Moon Shaped Pool is not available to Spotify subscribers, a move media channel Music Business Worldwide suggests is Thom Yorke getting his own back on the streaming service which he lambasted in 2013 saying that “new artists get paid f*ck all with this model”.
He pulled his Atoms for Peace material off that channel later describing the platform and its relationship with the music industry as: “The last desperate fart of a dying corpse.”
Radiohead’s music is an absorbing listen and certainly one the bands that are eagerly followed by many electronic music producers and lovers of electronic music. A Moon Shaped Pool flirts effortlessly with electronic soundscapes and traditional rock arrangements and is pretty downtempo throughout.
Some may even say depressing. Nonetheless this latest album has all the hallmarks of another densely layered offering from one of the world’s most cutting edge alternative bands.
Don’t expect any big anthems or massive rock numbers on A Moon Shaped Pool. This is Thom Yorke at his depressing best – dense layered music with ethereal soundscapes and deep, dark melodies in parts.
That’s after only one full listen. I like many others I’m sure will be donning the headphones each evening and re-listening to A Moon Shaped Pool, determined to break through the layers until I can at least hum one of their songs.
The tracklisting of A Moon Shaped Pool, Radiohead’s first studio album for five years, is as follows:
- Burn The Witch
- Daydreaming
- Decks Dark
- Desert Island Disk
- Ful Stop
- Glass Eyes
- Identikit
- The Numbers
- Present Tense
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief
- True Love Waits
