A Moon Shaped Pool - Discussion Thread

"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork) 05/08/2016 at 19:14 • Filed to: Traffic Jams, Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool

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I think its turning into my favorite Radiohead album, but it needs headphones/good speakers. I listened to it for the first time in my car, and it didn’t help that I was incredibly tired; now I have my headphones on.

Tonally, I’m getting a very In Rainbows vibe on the second listen, almost like The King of Limbs didn’t happen. There are a bunch of hidden guitar sounds, or sounds that don’t sound like traditional guitars, but also many traditional guitar sounds. This is something I didn’t expect after hearing all the strings on the first two singles.

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Monkey B > Tim (Fractal Footwork) 05/08/2016 at 19:51

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I love Radiohead, but this one is sleepier than King of Limbs. I listened from around 2:30 when I DL’d to around 6 on repeat on my main system (good hifi in an acoustic treated room) and there really isn’t one song that made me love it...KoL had a few. It’s beautiful music, but it is, in my opinion, the least interesting thing they’ve ever done.

phenotyp > Tim (Fractal Footwork) 05/08/2016 at 21:21

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Hoping to get a chance to listen to the whole thing tonight. I didn’t love KoL, but there were a couple non-album singles from that era that I fucking LOVED .

I didn’t really listen to or like them particularly until around 2004, when I rediscovered OK Computer and realized how devastating it was. In Rainbows had some hits, some misses, for me. Regardless my opinion of them, I love, love, love what they do, love their process, love their re-framing the context of “popular” music for the last 15 years.

Tim (Fractal Footwork) > phenotyp 05/08/2016 at 21:35

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True Love Waits is the last song on this record, and the setup of the whole album followed by this song leaves me absolutely devastated when it’s over. It’s a sad album, but one that I’ll keep coming back to.

Goggles Pizzano > Tim (Fractal Footwork) 06/08/2016 at 11:15

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