<p>A Moon Shaped Pool is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead. The ever-evolving band has a fresh approach, artfully controlled and never contrived.<br /><br /></p>.<p> To this end, Jonny Greenwood has done some great orchestral synthesis. Much of Thom Yorke’s lyrics relate to heartbreak. The album is not so much of a stormer as a creeper, with its well-crafted ambient, cosmic, electro-acoustic blend. The multi-layered soundscape is meditative, ethereal, cosmic, spooky, eerie, elusive yet edgy. <br /><br />The opening song, ‘Burn The Witch’ is about how one can be crucified by media today. ‘Daydreamin’ has somnambulant and trance-like soundscape with grand string arrangements, giving it an operatic touch (“Dreamers/ They never learn/ They never learn/ Beyond the point/ Of no return/ Of no return”)<br /><br />‘Decks Dark’ uses a space metaphor matched by operatic but sombre and sublime music.<br />A diversity of musical variety is demonstrated in ‘Desert Island Disk’, which is a folk hymn, ‘Ful Stop’ (a dirge with a choir backup), ‘Glass Eyes’ (chamber music) and ‘The Numbers’ (folk-jazz). ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief’ begins as a slow-paced epic track gathering momentum as it progress and then drowns in echoing guitars and operatic strings.<br /><br />The album ends with ‘True Love Waits’, which Radiohead first performed in 1995 and again numerous times over the years, but was never released on an album. A studio version of the song, rearranged as a minimal piano ballad, finally finds a place in this album.<br /><br /><br /></p>
<p>A Moon Shaped Pool is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead. The ever-evolving band has a fresh approach, artfully controlled and never contrived.<br /><br /></p>.<p> To this end, Jonny Greenwood has done some great orchestral synthesis. Much of Thom Yorke’s lyrics relate to heartbreak. The album is not so much of a stormer as a creeper, with its well-crafted ambient, cosmic, electro-acoustic blend. The multi-layered soundscape is meditative, ethereal, cosmic, spooky, eerie, elusive yet edgy. <br /><br />The opening song, ‘Burn The Witch’ is about how one can be crucified by media today. ‘Daydreamin’ has somnambulant and trance-like soundscape with grand string arrangements, giving it an operatic touch (“Dreamers/ They never learn/ They never learn/ Beyond the point/ Of no return/ Of no return”)<br /><br />‘Decks Dark’ uses a space metaphor matched by operatic but sombre and sublime music.<br />A diversity of musical variety is demonstrated in ‘Desert Island Disk’, which is a folk hymn, ‘Ful Stop’ (a dirge with a choir backup), ‘Glass Eyes’ (chamber music) and ‘The Numbers’ (folk-jazz). ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief’ begins as a slow-paced epic track gathering momentum as it progress and then drowns in echoing guitars and operatic strings.<br /><br />The album ends with ‘True Love Waits’, which Radiohead first performed in 1995 and again numerous times over the years, but was never released on an album. A studio version of the song, rearranged as a minimal piano ballad, finally finds a place in this album.<br /><br /><br /></p>
