Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) CD-Rip
BAND/ARTIST: Radiohead
- Title: A Moon Shaped Pool
- Year Of Release: 2016
- Label: XL Recordings / Soyuz Music #XLCD790
- Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Electronic
- Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue, Log) / MP3 CBR320
- Total Time: 00:52:41
- Total Size: 318 Mb (Full Scans ~ 224 Mb)
- WebSite: Album Preview
A Moon Shaped Pool is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released as a digital download and on paid streaming services on 8 May 2016. A physical release followed in June 2016 through Hostess Entertainment in Japan and XL Recordings in other countries. A special edition, containing additional artwork and two more tracks, will be shipped in September 2016. Radiohead worked on A Moon Shaped Pool intermittently after finishing the 2012 tour for their previous album, The King of Limbs, working in southern France with longtime producer Nigel Godrich. It includes several songs written some years earlier; "True Love Waits" dates to at least 1995, "Burn the Witch" to 2000 and "Present Tense" to 2008. Several tracks feature strings and choral vocals arranged by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra. "Ful Stop" features additional drumming from Clive Deamer, who performed with Radiohead on the King of Limbs tour. The artwork was created by longtime collaborator Stanley Donwood. Radiohead did not promote the album until the week before its release, with the singles "Burn the Witch" and "Daydreaming", accompanied by music videos. The band also commissioned a series of video vignettes by directors and visual artists set to short clips from the album. A world tour began in June 2016. A Moon Shaped Pool received critical acclaim; it became the fifth Radiohead album to be nominated for the Mercury Prize and Radiohead's sixth chart-topping album in the UK.
Track List:
01. Burn the Witch [03:42]
02. Daydreaming [06:25]
03. Decks Dark [04:41]
04. Desert Island Disk [03:45]
05. Ful Stop [06:08]
06. Glass Eyes [02:53]
07. Identikit [04:27]
08. The Numbers [05:46]
09. Present Tense [05:07]
10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief [05:04]
11. True Love Waits [04:46]
A cursory glance at A Moon Shaped Pool may suggest a certain measure of indifference on the part of Radiohead. Its 11 songs are sequenced in alphabetical order – a stunt befitting a Pixies concert or perhaps a Frank Black box set, not a proper album – and many of these tunes are of an older vintage: the group began work on the opening "Burn the Witch" at the turn of the century, while the closing "True Love Waits" first appeared in concerts way back in 1995. These are the elements of a clearinghouse, but with Radiohead appearances are always deceiving. A Moon Shaped Pool doesn't play like an ill-considered collection of leftovers; it unfurls with understated ease, each silvery song shimmering into the next. The pulse rarely quickens and the arrangements seldom agitate, yet the album never quite feels monochromatic. Sly, dissonant strings grace some cuts, acoustic guitars provide a pastoral counterpoint to an electronic pulse, Thom Yorke's voice floats through the music, often functioning as nothing more than an element of a mix; what he's saying matters not as much as how he murmurs. Such subtle, shifting textures emphasize Radiohead's musicianship, a point underscored when this version of "True Love Waits" is compared to its 2001 incarnation. There, Yorke accompanied himself with a simple acoustic guitar and he seemed earnest and yearning, but here, supported by piano and strings, he sounds weary and weathered, a man who has lost his innocence. What he and Radiohead have gained, however, is some measure of maturity, and with this, their music has deepened. Certainly, sections of A Moon Shaped Pool contain an eerie, disconcerting glimmer, usually attained through power kept in reserve – nothing stabs as hard as the sawing fanfare of "Burn the Witch," while the winding, intersecting guitars that conclude "Identikit" provide the noisiest element – yet the album as a whole doesn't feel unsettling. Instead, there's a melancholic comfort to its ebb and flow, a gentle rocking motion that feels comforting; it's a tonic to the cloistered, scattered King of Limbs and even the sleek alienation of Kid A. Radiohead are recognizably the same band that made that pioneering piece of electronica-rock but they're older and wiser on A Moon Shaped Pool, deciding not to push at the borders of their sound but rather settle into the territory they've marked as their own. This may not result in a radical shift in sound but rather a welcome change in tone: for the first time Radiohead feel comfortable in their own skin.
~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music
~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music
Track List:
01. Burn the Witch [03:42]
02. Daydreaming [06:25]
03. Decks Dark [04:41]
04. Desert Island Disk [03:45]
05. Ful Stop [06:08]
06. Glass Eyes [02:53]
07. Identikit [04:27]
08. The Numbers [05:46]
09. Present Tense [05:07]
10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief [05:04]
11. True Love Waits [04:46]
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