Radiohead

[pelican fly]

Identikit
True Love Waits

wow. never thought i'd hear these on this album

good Sunday

kiss Mom

[77years]

Fantastic record. 

So many killer tracks and a few I'd never have thought I'd hear properly recorded

[sing blue silver]

Really loving it pretty instantly. A huge step up from TKOL.

[krook]

True Love Waits... it would be like Deftones releasing Hump or Venision on Gore. I mean, it's been over 20 years.

[bright lights, big city]

True Love Waits... it would be like Deftones releasing Hump or Venision on Gore. I mean, it's been over 20 years.

That old? Crazy. But hey it is indeed awesome, and interesting seeing it on an official release.

[77years]

It is a little sobering to realize that the moments of breathtaking music on it are basically re-recorded songs from the vault.  As good as the record is, I wonder -have they run out of truly spectacular ideas? To me, King of Limbs was just a jammy string of one-trick mood tracks... not one song was really evolutionary... now they issue an album of mostly older songs reinterpreted?

Just an interesting trajectory

[Inkblades]

A lot of the songs, besides True Love Waits, aren't that old. They've just been been played for the past few years. And check when they toured in 2006 - they played the majority of the songs on In Rainbows before it came out. Nothing new for them.

Anyway, this album is going to take some digesting but holy fuck, a lot of the soundscaping is pretty incredible. It's all so dreamy, delicate and orchestral.

[Cullision]

Looking forward to delving into this, I hope it does more for me than Gore.

[Crazylegs]

It doesn't necessarily grab me after the first listen, but i'm listening to it while at work. Not optimal conditions for enjoying music, i guess. I'm pretty sure I'll be in love with it soon enough, though.

[bright lights, big city]

the 2 biggest keywords for them always seem to be "gorgeous" and "haunting". as usual, both those words describe this album.


also: DECKS DARK! that choir. the bass. Phil's drumming. oh my god.

[77years]

Yeah. The drum SOUND on Decks Dark.

That's how you engineer a drum sound right.

Good driving music on Ful Stop. Perfect for the morning drive

[E-Money]

Yea Decks Dark is so great. Idk why but I feel like that song has an old school feel to it. I think it's Thoms vocals .. Anyone else getting that? Cant wait to see them in August.

[Cullision]

Decks Dark is so damn great, it's been stuck in my head from the first listen.

[only pieces remain]

another new radiohead album, and it is fucking great

no surprise(s) there

[Crazylegs]

3:50 of Tinker Tailor Soldier... is reminiscent of a part of one of the godspeed albums, can't remember which.

[blixa]

i cried three different times listening to this record.

jonny greenwood is the realy star in this band, but can i say how superbly thom is ageing. wow.

[Inkblades]

After further listening, I really like A Moon Shaped Pool, but I'm also sort of wishing it wasn't so aggressively gentle. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy slow ballad type stuff, but outside of Burn the Witch and the end of Ful Stop, there are hardly any bangers (excuse me for the played term) on this album. Even The King of Limbs had more tracks that cook than this.

I'm also finding Thom to be almost too restrained. He's coming up with a lot of gorgeous melodies, but I still miss the "Thom spazzes out" moments of songs like Paranoid Android ("Gucci little piggy!"), Idioteque ("This is really happening!"), 2+2=5 ("You have not been paying attention!") and even Nude ("You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking").

[Inkblades]

[Rally Sweat]

I kinda love the restraint after the last two albums were so...vibrant. Also glad the soundtrack work has bled into their songs - really suits the visual quality of their music. Been listening to it nonstop.

[krook]

Anyone seen this? http://thenumbers.rocks
Somebody should do the same thing for Deftones. Way better than all those eliminations.