By far their most detailed production effort since Kid A, perhaps even ecclipsing. On top of that, most adventurous songwriting since Kid A.
I am impressed!
>>65315249
Best Radiohead album ever desu
There's no energy in any of the band members, they sound like old men who are losing their connection with each other. On top of that most of the album is midtempo ballads that have a weak sense of melody, an unforgiveable crime.
>>65315257
I'm inclined to agree. Forgot to mention, it feels like a much more honest work than TKOL, they seem to have found a new interest in indulging in some of their pop sensibilities, especially on Burn The Witch
>>65315303
>it feels like a much more honest work than TKOL,
TKOL was a very honest, very devoted production. You could feel the drive in Selway's drumming, in Yorke's dynamic voice, in that incredible guitar riff to Magpie. You don't feel ANY of that on AMSP.
>>65315257
This to be quite honest with you my bloodkin
>>65315249
>THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS DANCEEEEEE
God I love that song
I think we all know why this album is what it is
>>65315427
>those beautiful strings/arrangements
How does he do it boys?
Because that’s all so much of A Moon Shaped Pool does: it turns, and then you reset it. It turns, and you reset it. Repeat, go blue in the face, do whatever you can to find an anchor, something to grab hold of that has that same roughness, that singular feel, of this band at its best. There are pretty songs, albeit shot through with some real Fisher Price: My First Radiohead lyricism – ‘Present Tense’ is a fine case in point, a twitchy shuffle on the skins with a gloopy layer of choral vocals atop it, Yorke declaring: “I won’t stop now / I won’t slack off / Or all this love / Will be in vain.” The irony is measured in fathoms, truly. ‘Glass Eyes’ is another example of delicacy being mistaken for intimacy, for affecting introspection – its fractured piano lines and gently rising strings tick all the aesthetic boxes, and there’s certainly a couple of seconds in it where the walking listener will slow their step to really zero in on the mix. It’s beautiful, categorically, but clichéd with it – again, it’s nowhere near close to Radiohead’s own best in show when it comes to this approach, to songs like ‘Sail To the Moon’ for example or ‘Exit Music’.
>>65315293
I'm inclined to agree. At times it sounds like something you'd hear at Starbucks or some used bookstore.
The way Thom changes his vocal styles a lot is really neat. He was in a rut from httt to tkol that was getting annoying.
He sounds cool as fuck on Ful Stop
>>65315478
>TRUTH WILL MESS YOU UP
>>65315457
Its just the movie soundtrack sound that they finally got back thanks to jonny taking control
Radiohead consistently find success as a democratic unit
>adventurous songwriting
>>65315552
>n-n-no guys the shittiness is actually good come on
>>65315592
wut
>>65315450
and this lads is a fine example of how someone can be so smart and yet so dumb at THE SAME TIME. truly stunning paradox but it exists, what'll u do?
>>65315582
this.
>Dreamers
>They never learn
>they neeeeeeeeeever
>learn
That being said, I ordered a copy of the deluxe edition. Because I'm a fucking sucker.
>>65315773
>>65315582
>implying you two even get it
>>65315727
Great refutation, kid.
>>65315773
Hey, I don't care for the album and bought the 24bit WAV on release. Don't even care.
I think you made a good call desu
>>65315773
Same.
Love The Head but these are their least adventurous songs since HTTT and Pablo Honey.
>>65315845
>HTTT
>not their most adventurous post Amnesiac
kek
>>65315833
define Fisher price if u wanna play hardball bro. define fucking fisher price, you used it
>>65315877
Hence, "since".
Well done.
>>65315898
>you used it
1. I didn't use it, The Quietus did.
2. It very clearly means basic, kid-tier lyricism.
>>65315257
I have it right behind Kid A
i think nigel fuck their shit up, too blurry and bland, not a bad album th, i loved present tense, ful stop and glass eyes
>>65315948
oh for fucks sake im not responding to some goddamn faggot "journalist" fuck off
"fisher price" what a faggot
>>65315958
How invloved is he with production i mean is it all him or wha
>>65316058
its all him, pretty much but his father died during the proces so he wasn't event rying this time
>>65315773
>songwriting means lyrics
>>65316050
Hi newfag!
>>65316103
>songwriting doesn't involve lyrics
>>65316100
yeah I can yell you don't know shit about what Nigel does in production on their albums
kek
>>65316194
ayyy
>>65316204
cringe thread?
>>65316204
jesus fucking christ what was that garbage
>>65316204
3/10
>>65316127
>>65316103
this is the absolute easiest way to spot a youtube comment-tier pleb
>>65316299
>>65316295
>>65316261
Haha i was just trolling you guys
>>65316376
now post something good to make up for wasting our time anon
>>65316376
>ehhe i- i was t-trolling you guys em.. hehe yeah..
( ':
you cant with a straight face type that identikit, present tense, ful stop arent some of the finest songs released in recent years
Thom's vocals were too loud in the first two tracks.
And too dry in the first one.
As far as audio production goes I think this was their worst.
>>65316492
present tense? yes ful stop and identikit both need work, like a lot of work
>>65316160
It doesn't have to you fucking faggot.
>>65316411
one sec
>>65316480
in all seriousness now that i listen to it after i hear the criticism it really does sound like shit
I didn't feel like recording on my live drums cause i just wanted to finish it quickly, it was for school. Im shit with drum progaming so i used fucking the FPC drum pad on fl.
Also the ambient devices weren't used very articulately
>>65316539
I dunno dude, In Rainbows was pretty fucking sterile
>>65316579
honest opinion; you're not shit, keep it up
BUT NOT HERE
go back to your fucking soundcloud/bandcamp thread
>>65316702
You're right. In fact i made the thread, im shitting up my own dam thread aha sorry guys
>>65316738
hey fuck that dude post something
we talk about Radiohead every fucking hour on here anyway
>>65316764
https://clyp.it/dlqrnuim
ok. This one starts out like an anco track but then it goes into this really weird left field horror film soundtrack thing thats been happening to my mind lately
>>65316842
much better than the first track, very eerie sounding
you got a bandcamp senpai?
>>65317057
https://juliawinters.bandcamp.com/releases
Yes. I made it last night cause someone asked for a link like you just did.
This album isnt TOTALLY completed, idek honestly.
whats on their is about 30 minutes of the 60 minutes of material ive made the past 2 weeks on my new computer. The other 30 minutes is real poppy stuff that im not happy with yet. this bandcamp is supposed to be /dark/
>>65317192
keep it up man
>>65315293
>>65315303
>>65315368
>>65315457
As somebody who really enjoys every album since Kid A I have never been more underwhelmed by AMSP. It is aggressively boring.
>>65315293
I don't think energy or melody is the point of the album, though the latter does have its place. It seems more about mood and texture to me; the album has a lot of instances where it'll set up these meandering, almost amorphous passages of intertwining instrumentation only for a core melody to cut through it all, and then the song builds subtly from there, usually with a gentle ebb and flow. Daydreaming and The Numbers are probably the most obvious examples of this but most every song here does it on some level or another, sometimes even inverting it and accenting an existing melody with ethereal backdrops like in Present Tense or True Love Waits. The only completely straight shooting track I can think of on this album is Identikit.
