Just a surprise, here The Moon Shaped Pool, the new Radiohead – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                         
                     

                 

 
 

Follow a new (and unexpected) edition with a surprising gesture is not in the case of Radiohead a surprise pass redundancy. In 2007 In Rainbows not only seemingly came out of nowhere and was accompanied by the decision to sell at the price that the listener wanted to pay – not inclusive. King of Limbs , published in 2011, also arrived unexpectedly. And now for the third time in a row, The Moon Shaped Pool , and is called the new album, caught us again unawares.

The ninth album English was released digitally on Sunday (physical edition arrives June 17), just over a week after a couple of strange events. First, some users registered in the Radiohead site received at home a pamphlet which were inscribed verses claims – “ burn the witch / we know where you live .” Then, the band disappeared literally the internet, little by little erasing to the total void your website and your accounts in social networks. However, they arrived songs. First Burn the witch after Daydreaming , along with the related videos respectively an animation in “ Stop Motion ” and a performance of Paul Thomas Anderson .

Now, just secrecy. Sunday at 19h, Portuguese time, everything was revealed. The album is entitled The Moon Shaped Pool and consists of 11 songs, some of which, such as Desert Island disk , True love waits Identikit and Full stop have been heard over the years at concerts of Radiohead or Thom Yorke – True love waits , for example, reached be recorded in 2001 live EP I Might be Wrong .

at first impression, The Moon Shaped Pool (available on CD and vinyl in June with a special edition to arrive in September) does not seem to follow the footsteps of King of Limbs , synthetic aftertaste album, built from the electronic manipulation of recordings recorded by each of the musicians. Produced as usual by Nigel Godrich, hear him not only a summary of the song as defined in post Kid A with electronic exploration, crossing folk-rock, baroque pop, dub and psychedelic scenarios but also, and significantly, orchestrator talent who guitarist Johnny Greenwood has developed in its path parallel to the band. This will also be an intimately tuned album with your time – both the video and the letter of Burn the witch , for example, they are complaint and a symptom of this fear and paranoia to the other, one that we are different.

Radiohead begin May 20 world tour passing by Portugal on 9 July, the day of return of the band to the festival iN Alive.