Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool

[Kevin Davis]

It was just really important for me to make a very obvious point.

Naturally. And maybe I should have said Rihanna, whose voice makes me want to stab my ears out with an icepick.

Ouch! If you did that you might have to have someone

[Birds in Hell]

But it mostly strikes me as an ambient/cinematic soundscape-type record, with touches of psychedelic folk

I think is a pretty good description of the album. As much as I like ambient/cinematic soundscapes, it just doesn't have much room in my life and one soundscape recording doesn't hold much more emotional appeal over another well done one.
I get it, this is who and what Radiohead are now. But really, this is music for middle aged people by middle aged people. Done extremely well it won't be part of (by design) many peoples soundtrack of the summer of 2016. Critically acclaimed but listened to by fewer and fewer people.

Yeah, to be honest, this does not sound even remotely appealing to me. I really have no patience for ambient music anymore.

Quite often ambient music is the only music I have patience for. The human voice can be a distraction.

[LoathedVermin72]

But it mostly strikes me as an ambient/cinematic soundscape-type record, with touches of psychedelic folk

I think is a pretty good description of the album. As much as I like ambient/cinematic soundscapes, it just doesn't have much room in my life and one soundscape recording doesn't hold much more emotional appeal over another well done one.
I get it, this is who and what Radiohead are now. But really, this is music for middle aged people by middle aged people. Done extremely well it won't be part of (by design) many peoples soundtrack of the summer of 2016. Critically acclaimed but listened to by fewer and fewer people.

Yeah, to be honest, this does not sound even remotely appealing to me. I really have no patience for ambient music anymore.

Quite often ambient music is the only music I have patience for. The human voice can be a distraction.

Maybe I will get there someday, but right now I could not disagree more.

[epilogue]

I'm a hoodrat and I feel hurt.

YOU APOLOGIZE TO JORGE RIGHT NOW TRAG

I'm having a tough time keeping up with Jorge's RM standings today. Is he a hero or a heel? This will have bearing on any potential apology I may deliver.

The platypus is the alpha and the omega; he's all things at all times to all people.

If he's so god-like, then he's probably already forgiven me.

That isn't how the force works!

[tragabigzanda]

[epilogue]

I decided to listen to The King of Limbs again. It's probably been about 3 years since I've tried. Bloom is tedious. What a chore that thing is to slog through. Magpie is decent though. Better than I remembered.

[Mike]

Bloom is tedious.

One of my all-time favorite Radiohead songs.

[epilogue]

Bloom is tedious.

One of my all-time favorite Radiohead songs.

My friend loves it too. I just can't do it. The thing does not work for me.

[epilogue]

Little by Little is okay, too. I enjoyed that.

Feral.... not so much. Blech. This is about as far as I've ever gotten in this record before wanting to switch to something else. This is why I haven't listened to it in years.

[swan]

The instrumentation & production on Little By Little is top-fucking-notch

[epilogue]

The instrumentation & production on Little By Little is top-fucking-notch

Yeah, I'd agree. Probably the strongest point of the album for me, so far, on this listen.

[epilogue]

Lotus Flower is some witchcraft, man. What the fuck.

[Mike]

Feral.... not so much. Blech. This is about as far as I've ever gotten in this record before wanting to switch to something else. This is why I haven't listened to it in years.

That's exactly where the music starts to be different than the first half.

[swan]

Bloom & Feral were both massive, rocking headfucks in the one KoL tour show I saw

[Birds in Hell]

I love Bloom!

I really like those first five songs on TKoL to various degrees (Bloom through Lotus Flower) but I just can't do the final three. Total snoozers.

Staircase is fantastic from the leftovers.

[Mike]

I love Bloom!

I really like those first five songs on TKoL to various degrees (Bloom through Lotus Flower) but I just can't do the final three. Total snoozers.

Staircase is fantastic from the leftovers.

I kinda agree. I love TKOL because of the first five songs and like them way more than the last three. They're still really good songs though, just kind of Radiohead by the numbers and not as exciting.

[epilogue]

Codex is pretty but I feel like they've done this song too many times before.

[---]

This is fucking gorgeous, team.

a true achievement

[tragabigzanda]

[epilogue]

This is fucking gorgeous, team.

a true achievement