A Moon Shaped Pool

A Moon Shaped Pool
Studio album by Radiohead
Released 8 May 2016 (2016-05-08)
Recorded 2014–16
Studio
Genre
Length 52:31
Label XL
Producer
Radiohead chronology
The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement
(2011)		 A Moon Shaped Pool
(2016)
Singles from A Moon Shaped Pool
  1. "Burn the Witch"
    Released: 3 May 2016
  2. "Daydreaming"
    Released: 6 May 2016

A Moon Shaped Pool is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released as a download and on paid streaming services on 8 May 2016. CD and LP releases followed in June 2016 through XL Recordings. Radiohead also sold a special edition, containing two extra tracks and additional artwork, from their website.

Radiohead recorded A Moon Shaped Pool 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 their 2012 King of Limbs tour. The artwork was created by longtime Radiohead collaborator Stanley Donwood.

Radiohead did not promote the album until the week before its release, when they released 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 on 20 May 2016.

A Moon Shaped Pool received critical acclaim and was the fifth Radiohead album to be nominated for the Mercury Prize. It topped the charts in several countries, becoming Radiohead's sixth number-one album in the UK, and became a bestseller on vinyl. It was certified gold in the UK on 24 June.

Background

Several Moon Shaped Pool tracks were written some time before the album's recording. "True Love Waits" dates to at least 1995; a live version was released on the live album I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (2001).[1] The band attempted to record the song "countless" times, working on it during the sessions for their albums OK Computer (1997), Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), but could not find an arrangement that satisfied them. It became a fan favourite and one of Radiohead's best-known unreleased songs.[2] Similarly, Radiohead worked on "Burn the Witch" during the sessions for their albums Kid A, Hail to the Thief (2003) and In Rainbows (2007), and lyrics from the song appeared in the artwork for Hail to the Thief and on Radiohead's website.[3][4] "Present Tense" dates to 2008,[5] and Yorke first performed it in a solo set at the UK Latitude Festival in 2009.[6][7]

During the 2012 tour for their eighth album, The King of Limbs (2011), Radiohead performed several new songs, including future Moon Shaped Pool tracks "Identikit" and "Ful Stop".[6] While on tour, the band recorded a version of "Identikit" and another unidentified song at Jack White's Third Man Records studio.[6]

After the tour, Radiohead entered hiatus and worked on side projects.[8] In 2014, singer Thom Yorke and drummer Phil Selway released their respective second solo albums, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes[9] and Weatherhouse.[10] Guitarist Jonny Greenwood scored his third film for director Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice,[11] and collaborated with longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and other musicians on the album Junun.[12]

Recording

Jonny Greenwood performing in 2015 with the London Contemporary Orchestra, who appear on A Moon Shaped Pool

Radiohead and Godrich began work on A Moon Shaped Pool in September 2014. The sessions lasted until Christmas that year and resumed in March 2015.[13] In June 2015, Greenwood said that the band had been slow to regain momentum after their hiatus;[14] Selway stated that they had worked in "fits and starts", but that a "full schedule" would begin that September.[15] In 2015 they resumed work in the La Fabrique studio near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France.[16] The studio, originally a nineteenth-century mill producing artist's pigment, has been used by musicians including Morrissey and Nick Cave, and houses the biggest collection of vinyl records in the world.[16]

After recording The King of Limbs using software written by Greenwood, Radiohead opted to record A Moon Shaped Pool with tape with analog 8 and 16-track recorders. This added creative limits to the process, as rerecording a take meant first erasing the previous take.[17] For the introduction to "Daydreaming", the band slowed the tape, creating a pitch-warping effect.[17] Radiohead still used digital manipulation on many tracks; for example, Greenwood used the music programming language Max to manipulate the piano on "Glass Eyes".[17] Drummer Clive Deamer, who performed with Radiohead on the King of Limbs tour[18] and appeared on their 2011 singles "The Daily Mail" and "Staircase",[19] played additional drums on "Ful Stop".[20] Greenwood estimated that 80% of the album was recorded in one two-week period.[17]

In November 2015, composer Robert Ziegler, who worked with Radiohead on The King of Limbs, tweeted photos of the band recording with a string orchestra.[21] The strings and choir sections were arranged by Greenwood and performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra with conductor Hugh Brunt; the orchestra had previously worked with Greenwood on his score for the 2012 film The Master, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.[8][22] The strings were recorded at RAK Studios in London.[20] Cellist Oliver Coates said: "Nigel, Jonny and Thom all have this awesome relationship, and were so animated during the recording. I remember we were laying down the cello part at the end of 'Daydreaming' and Thom said, 'That's it – that is the sound of the record.'"[23] Greenwood had the cellists detune their cellos for the song, creating a "growling" sound.[24] Additional string and choir parts were recorded but cut from the album.[23]

In December 2015, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, Yorke performed three Moon Shaped Pool songs: "The Numbers" (then known as "Silent Spring"), "Present Tense", and "Desert Island Disk".[25] On Christmas Day, Radiohead released a new song, "Spectre", on the audio streaming site SoundCloud.[26] It was written for the James Bond film of the same name, but was rejected, according to Greenwood, for being "too dark".[27]

Music and lyrics

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke's lyrics discuss love, forgiveness, and regret.

A Moon Shaped Pool has been described as an art rock album.[28][29] The album combines electronic elements such as drum machines and synthesisers with acoustic timbres such as guitar, piano, and Greenwood's string and choral arrangements.[30] According to Pitchfork writer Jeremy Larson, "while lite orchestrations are nothing new for the band, A Moon Shaped Pool brings them to the fore of the songwriting, and Greenwood's arrangements do more heavy lifting than on any other album."[22]

"Burn the Witch" features col legno strings, whereby the players strike their strings with the stick of the bow rather than bowing them, creating a percussive effect.[31] "Daydreaming" is an ambient song[32][33] with a "simple, sad" piano motif, "spooky" backmasked vocals, and electronic and orchestral elements.[34] "Identikit" features a jam-like opening, choral vocals, and "spacey" electronics, and ends with an "agitated" guitar solo.[35][36] The Guardian felt that the strings, bassline and funk rhythm of "The Numbers" were a homage to Serge Gainsbourg's 1970 album Histoire De Melody Nelson.[35] "Present Tense" features a Latin shuffle beat.[35] "Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief" combines strings with electronic percussion and a distorted synthesiser. "True Love Waits", first performed on acoustic guitar over 20 years prior, is performed on piano, with additional overdubbed pianos building as the song progresses.[37] The songs are sequenced in alphabetical order,[22] which Greenwood stated was chosen only because the order worked well.[38] The special edition contains an additional two tracks: "Ill Wind", featuring a bossa nova rhythm and "icy" synthesisers,[39] and "Spectre", a piano ballad[40] with "decaying orchestral sweeps".[41]

Many of the lyrics discuss love, forgiveness, and regret with, according to Larson, "a sense that beyond tectonic heartbreak there is an anaemic acceptance that is kind of beautiful if you don't get too sad about it."[22] Several critics felt the lyrics were coloured by Yorke's recent separation from his partner of almost 25 years, noting that the backmasked vocals of "Daydreaming", when reversed, resemble the words "half of my life".[22][42][43][44] Pitchfork writer Jillian Mapes interpreted "Burn the Witch" as criticism of authority and groupthink, expressing a "deep sense of dread and skepticism".[45] The Guardian felt the song might address mass surveillance or the threat to open discussion posed by the self-policing users of social media.[46] Pitchfork interpreted "The Numbers" as a comment on climate change.[22]

Artwork

The artwork for A Moon Shaped Pool was created by Stanley Donwood, who has worked with Radiohead since 1995.[47] Donwood worked in a barn with speakers connected to the studio where the band recorded nearby, allowing their music to influence his art.[16] For the "Live From a Moon Shaped Pool" promotional event, Donwood issued a pamphlet entitled "How to Make Your Own A Moon Shaped Pool Artwork in 66 Easy Steps", inspired by his experience creating the album cover.[48] The steps include an instruction to "let the wind and the weather move the paint around for you."[49]

Release

A Moon Shaped Pool special edition

A Moon Shaped Pool was released as a download from 7 pm BST on 8 May on Radiohead's website[50] and online music stores including iTunes Store and Amazon Music, as well as Google Play Music, where it was accidentally released hours early.[50] It was also released on paid streaming services including Google Play Music, Apple Music, Groove Music and Tidal.[51] CD and LP editions were released in Japan on 15 June through Hostess Entertainment[52] and in other countries on 17 June through XL Recordings.[50]

A Moon Shaped Pool was made available on the streaming service Spotify on 17 June 2016. Yorke and Godrich had made headlines in 2013 for their criticisms of Spotify, which they believe cannot support new artists.[53][54] Spotify had been in "advanced discussions" with Radiohead's management and label to make A Moon Shaped Pool the first album available exclusively to the service's paying subscribers, and not those listening to the free service, but the deal fell through. Spotify spokesman Jonathan Prince said: "Some of the approaches we explored with Radiohead were new, and we ultimately decided that we couldn’t deliver on those approaches technologically in time for the album's release schedule."[55]

A Moon Shaped Pool debuted at number one in the UK album chart, becoming Radiohead's sixth UK number-one album.[56] It peaked at number one in Ireland, Norway and Switzerland and in the top ten in several more countries. It was certified gold in the UK on 24 June 2016.[57] Following the physical release in June, the album returned to the top of the UK album chart with combined UK sales of 44,000, 39,000 of which were physical units and 10,500 vinyl, making A Moon Shaped Pool the week's best-selling vinyl record there.[58] As of 11 July, it was the UK's third-best-selling vinyl album of 2016, behind David Bowie's Blackstar and Amy Winehouse's Back to Black.[59]

Radiohead sold a special edition of A Moon Shaped Pool from their website, shipped from September 2016.[60] It contains the album on CD and two heavyweight 12" vinyl records, plus an additional CD with two extra tracks:[61] "Ill Wind" and the previously released "Spectre".[39] The special edition features packaging "inspired by the albums for 78rpm shellac records" in the studio where Radiohead recorded, 32 pages of additional artwork by Stanley Donwood, and an original piece of master tape, less than a second in length, from one of Radiohead's past recording sessions. As tape degrades over time, the band decided that "rather than it ending up as landfill we would cut it up and make it useful as a part of the special edition."[61]

Promotion

Card sent to fans featuring lyrics from "Burn the Witch"

In a departure from industry practice, Radiohead did no interviews or touring in the months preceding the release of A Moon Shaped Pool, teasing the album only as it was about to be released.[62] On 30 April 2016, eight days before release, fans who had previously made orders from Radiohead received embossed cards with lyrics from the album's lead single, "Burn the Witch".[63] On 1 May, Radiohead deleted all content from their website and social media profiles, replacing them with blank images,[64] which Pitchfork interpreted as symbolic of their re-emergence.[62]

After releasing excerpts on Instagram, Radiohead released "Burn the Witch" as a download on 3 May. It was accompanied by a stop-motion animated music video which homages the style of the 1960s English children's television Trumpton Trilogy programmes[65] and the plot of the 1973 horror film The Wicker Man.[66][67] On 6 May, Radiohead released a second single, "Daydreaming", accompanied by a music video directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, for whom Greenwood has scored several films.[50] The video was projected in 35 mm film in select theatres.[68] On the same day, Radiohead announced that their ninth album would be released the following Sunday, but did not reveal the title until its release.[50]

A Moon Shaped Pool was played in its entirety on BBC Radio 6 Music on the day of release, presented by Tom Robinson.[69] The following week, Radiohead released the first in a series of video vignettes set to short clips of music from the album by directors and visual artists including Adam Buxton,[70] Richard Ayoade[71] and Ben Wheatley.[72][73] On 16 July, after releasing the final vignette, Radiohead announced a fan competition to create a vignette for "Daydreaming" using an alternative version of the song with additional strings.[74] Radiohead began a world tour in May 2016, with dates in Europe, North America, and Japan,[75][76] joined by additional drummer Clive Deamer.[76]

On 11 June, Radiohead announced "Live From A Moon Shaped Pool", a promotional event which took place in participating record shops around the world on 17 June, the day of the album's physical release. The event featured a "day-long" audio stream of playlists curated by Radiohead and a recording of their recent performance at the London Roundhouse,[77] along with competitions, artwork, and other activities.[78] Attendees in a record shop in Istanbul were attacked by a group of men who were angry that customers were drinking beer and playing music during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fast. Radiohead released a statement saying: "Our hearts go out to those attacked tonight at Velvet IndieGround in Istanbul. We hope that some day we will be able to look back on such acts of violent intolerance as things of the ancient past. For now, we can only offer our fans in Istanbul our love and support."[79]

On 15 September and 20 October, Radiohead released videos of Yorke and Greenwood performing "Present Tense" and The Numbers" respectively, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.[80][81] On 20 October, Radiohead announced that they will perform at the 2017 Glastonbury Festival, marking the band's third headline Glastonbury performance. The announcement was promoted by the appearance of the band's "bear head" logo on the field before the Pyramid Stage.[82] They will tour Europe in June and July 2017.[83]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.4/10[84]
Metacritic88/100[85]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[86]
The Daily Telegraph[87]
Entertainment WeeklyA[88]
The Guardian[35]
The Independent[89]
NME4/5[90]
Pitchfork Media9.1/10[91]
Q[92]
Spin9/10[93]
PopMatters[94]

A Moon Shaped Pool has a score of 88 out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic, based on 43 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim."[85] Patrick Ryan of USA Today wrote that "the brooding, symphonic and poignant A Moon Shaped Pool ... was well worth the wait."[95] Chris Gerard of PopMatters felt the album was "worthy of Radiohead's peerless catalog, a rich addition to what is the most vital and important string of rock albums of the last 30 years."[96] Jamieson Cox of the Verge praised the album's string arrangements and "emotional magnanimity".[97] Andy Beta of Rolling Stone described it as "a haunting, stunning triumph" and Radiohead's "most gorgeous and desolate album to date", praising its timbres and melodies.[30] Fellow Rolling Stone critic Will Hermes wrote that "it's Yorke's voice that holds the emotional center, and it's never been more affecting ... [A Moon Shaped Pool is] one of their most musically and emotionally arresting albums."[98] Sam Richards of NME described A Moon Shaped Pool as "an album of eerie, elusive beauty that is strange, shimmering and uncertain all at the same time."[99] Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote for AllMusic that "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."[86]

Eric Renner Brown of Entertainment Weekly praised the album's variety of musical textures and grand scale: "By nature, Radiohead albums will always be somewhat epic, but this one is more consistently grandiose than any of the band's releases since 2000's masterpiece Kid A."[88] Jon Pareles, writing for the New York Times, wrote that A Moon Shaped Pool was perhaps "[Radiohead's] darkest statement – though the one with the band's most pastoral surface." He praised Yorke's vocals and Greenwood's string arrangements, writing: "Both Mr. Yorke and Mr. Greenwood are relentlessly inquisitive listeners, lovers of melody and explorers of idioms, makers of puzzles who don’t shy away from emotion."[42] Chris Barton of the Los Angeles Times described A Moon Shaped Pool as "a rich and engrossing listen that somehow finds more undiscovered territory for a band that has built a career on doing just that."[100] MTV's Simon Vozick-Levinson wrote: "A Moon Shaped Pool provides a thrilling answer to the existential concerns that confront any band that's made it this far ... After all this time, hearing these five old friends challenge themselves into a new phase of evolution can still blow even a jaded fan's mind."[44]

Justin Joffe, writing for the New York Observer, praised the album as "a stunning display of naked vulnerability and a notable achievement ... Radiohead remain dedicated craftsmen of strange new sonic universes."[43] Like Joffe, Nina Corcoran of Consequence of Sound praised the inclusion of older songs such as "True Love Waits", writing: "Waiting five years to hear previously released tracks is worth it precisely because Radiohead finally feels connected enough to perform them with meaning ... waiting to release a studio recording of a song over two decades old allowed Radiohead to peel its words when riper than ever."[101] The Quietus, however, felt the inclusion of older songs gave the album the unwelcome feeling of a compilation album, writing: "Certain tracks feel less than fully fleshed out, really given the treatment that their age warrants ... There's simply so little spark here, barely glowing embers and blackened dust where once Radiohead blazed a fascinating, furious trail for others to attempt to follow."[102]

Jamie Milton of DIY felt that the album needed "another breakneck force shock to the system" similar to "Ful Stop", and that it contained some unnecessary elements, such as the "over-tinkering echo" of "Present Tense" and the "jagged closing section" of "Decks Dark". Nonetheless, Milton concluded that "every inch of this record has been meticulously crafted, tailor-made to fit the strengths of every member. Not once does a song sit out of place or come across as unfinished. These are gorgeous, human, complete works - some of the best of [Radiohead's] remarkable career."[103] Alexis Petridis of the Guardian criticised the "suffocating gloom of the lyrics", but felt the album was an improvement over The King of Limbs, writing that Radiohead had "[achieved] something they've never achieved before ... Alone among their commercial peers, Radiohead are held to not just release albums but make grand artistic statements worth dissecting and poring over."[35] A Moon Shaped Pool was the fifth Radiohead album to be nominated for the Mercury Prize, making Radiohead the most shortlisted act in the award's history.[104]

Accolades

Publication Accolade Year Rank
Consequence of Sound Top 50 Albums of 2016 2016
NME NME's Albums of the Year 2016 2016
Paste The 50 Best Albums of 2016 2016
Rolling Stone 50 Best Albums of 2016 2016
Stereogum The 50 Best Albums of 2016 2016
Time The Top 10 Best Albums 2016
Esquire The 30 Best Albums of 2016 2016
The Skinny Top 50 Albums of 2016 2016

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Radiohead.

  1. "Burn the Witch" – 3:40
  2. "Daydreaming" – 6:24
  3. "Decks Dark" – 4:41
  4. "Desert Island Disk" – 3:44
  5. "Ful Stop" – 6:07
  6. "Glass Eyes" – 2:52
  7. "Identikit" – 4:26
  8. "The Numbers" – 5:45
  9. "Present Tense" – 5:06
  10. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief" – 5:03
  11. "True Love Waits" – 4:43
Special edition bonus disc
  1. "Ill Wind" – 4:16
  2. "Spectre" – 3:19

Personnel

Additional musicians

Production

Design

Charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[114] 2
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[115] 4
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[116] 1
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[117] 4
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[118] 2
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[119] 5
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[120] 2
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[121] 3
French Albums (SNEP)[122] 5
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[123] 3
Greek Albums (IFPI Greece)[124] 6
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[125] 22
Irish Albums (IRMA)[126] 1
Italian Albums (FIMI)[127] 2
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[128] 2
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[129] 1
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[130] 9
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[131] 1
Scottish Albums (OCC)[132] 1
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[133] 6
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[134] 3
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[135] 1
UK Albums (OCC)[136] 1
US Billboard 200[137] 3
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[138] 1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[139] 1

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Canada (Music Canada)[140] Gold 40,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[57] Gold 100,000^
France (SNEP)[141] Gold 0*

^shipments figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalogue no.
Worldwide 8 May 2016 XL XLDA790[142]
17 June 2016
XLCD790 / XLLP790 / XLLP790X[143]

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