Davey Cakes
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Killing it by making some of the most sonically-interesting-yet-accessible music I've ever heard.
Experts at their craft, here. The album is an experience. And I thought Bowie's final album was good; this trounces even that.
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Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool |OT| A Moon Shaped Poo
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Experts at their craft, here. The album is an experience. And I thought Bowie's final album was good; this trounces even that.
Decks Dark really sounds like an OK Computer track.
I like the song but keep forgetting what it sounds like too. The strings outro is fantastic though imo.
I like the song but keep forgetting what it sounds like too. The strings outro is fantastic though imo.
I was sure nothing was gonna beat Blackstar this year, but this has probably done it.
DiddysKongQuest
Member
I basically spent the whole day listening to the album nonstop.
Setting up a Tidal trial account just for that was totally worth it.
Are the physical copies going to be time exclusive to WASTE?
Setting up a Tidal trial account just for that was totally worth it.
Google pls
Are the physical copies going to be time exclusive to WASTE?
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
Thom sounds like he's channeling Neil Young on "Daydreaming."
FaintDeftone
Junior Member
I'm not even really much of a fan of Radiohead, especially their modern releases, but this album is pretty damn good.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
After listening to this album all night and all day, all I can say - with the absolute certainty of a Sith Lord - is...
...Burn the Witch, Daydreaming, Decks Dark, Ful Stop and True Love Waits are among some of the best songs Radiohead have recorded...
...and...
...Present Tense is among their worst. It is not my cup of tea at all. It sounds like some sub-Sting, airport lounge band, middle-of-the-road piffle.I think I'd rather listen to Pop is Dead. Its so offensively inoffesnsive that I may have to make a play list without it.
I'm on the fence with the rest and need a bit more time with them.
...Burn the Witch, Daydreaming, Decks Dark, Ful Stop and True Love Waits are among some of the best songs Radiohead have recorded...
...and...
...Present Tense is among their worst. It is not my cup of tea at all. It sounds like some sub-Sting, airport lounge band, middle-of-the-road piffle.I think I'd rather listen to Pop is Dead. Its so offensively inoffesnsive that I may have to make a play list without it.
I'm on the fence with the rest and need a bit more time with them.
outunderthestars
Banned
Present Tense is probably my favourite, lol
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
I concur. It's the only song I don't like.
I'd replace Present Tense with Spectre.
Freyjadour
Member
From MT:
Also Decks Dark is probably my favorite right now.
Also Decks Dark is probably my favorite right now.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
I mean, I'm glad you like it, but, I really don't get how this album changed your mind when OK Computer and In Rainbows didn't
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
What's MT?
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Nah, fair play, sir. Each to their own and all that. It doesn't sound like Radiohead to me (bar the vocals).
Honestly, if Thom wasn't singing on it, I'd swear it was from Fields of Gold or something. I'm surprised they'd put it on an album.
Yeah, good shout.
no, of course not. only the special edition is, as was the case with In Rainbows and the King of Limbs.
Freyjadour
Member
Mortigi Tempo, radiohead forum
Mortigi Tempo, probably.
This doesn't even sound remotely like OKC to me... maybe a touch of IR, but it's still very different. AMSP is sweeping and grand, while IR is compact and poppy.
The Omega Man
Member
I am cancelling my Spotify sub and switching to Apple music, fuck this shit can't hold it anymore need my new Radiohead album also in rainbows while we are at it.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
Ah.
outunderthestars
Banned
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
And it still maintains the alphabetic order.
DiddysKongQuest
Member
That's good to know! This is my first Radiohead LP launch as a fan, so I was kinda worried.
I had really high hopes for Present Tense cos I loved it ever since Thom started playing it at his solo gigs. I just think they didn't really do it justice. It's unfortunate that they didn't stick with the arrangement they had going in various soundchecks. But like many of the tracks that I've heard live before, it's a grower so I slowly warming up to it.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Sort of. In terms of where they've been heading over the last two decades, it's a total about face. I'm really surprised that they've almost completely ditched the complex layered rhythms and replaced them with a far more sonorous, ambient sounds. Given recent events, I guess it's their 'break up' album (along with Yorke's TMB).
For years, people only ever heard the song as this stripped down acoustic number. The bossa nova feel of the final version is a pretty different sound. It takes some getting used to.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
I don't hate it. It's just my least favorite.
For reference, this is what Present Tense sounded like during soundchecks. Probably need to turn it up a bit but it's the best recording there is lol.
DiddysKongQuest
Member
Album is now downloadable on Google Play Music Germany, so it should be available in other countries as well.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
It's like a really cheesy European continental lounge song and doesn't sound like Radiohead to me, it's more like something Sting would chuck on an album.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
Just a comment on the quality of Radiohead's discography.
This record is dope, but it's not like they hit some new heights you know? They've had masterpieces 15, 20 years apart.
Yeah I think you're right. There's nothing that comes close to Feral in terms of pushing the boat out rhythmically. I love TKoL for that. I absolutely love ambient music so i'm not complaining but i'd have liked a moment on the album that took me aback for a second. Perhaps the second half of Full Stop gets the closest to that for me.
Lan Dong Mik
And why would I want them?
Is this streaming anywhere yet? I've got a buddy trying to listen to it at work. I can't seem to locate a link where this is streaming for free. I bought the album yesterday.
Davey Cakes
Member
Nothing in your post applies to the album.
Modest Mauser
Member
Is there a reason this still isn't on Spotify?
Identikit is so fucking good. The verses are perfect, an improvement on the already great live versions (but is it still Ed's voice? Sounds like Thom and the lyrics are different)
"Sweet faced ones with nothing left inside"
That delivery!
Not sure how I feel about the end of the song vs the old live version, but the broken hearts part is definitely better and unexpected.
"Sweet faced ones with nothing left inside"
That delivery!
Not sure how I feel about the end of the song vs the old live version, but the broken hearts part is definitely better and unexpected.
teruterubozu
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Thom Yorke
InaudibleWhispa
Member
The Numbers really reminds me of Optimistic. Keep expecting Thom to burst into "You can try the best you can"
Totally, I was imagining him earlier singing "I'd really like to help you man" on this