Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (VG+/VG+) – 2xLP, US 2016

A Moon Shaped Pool is an LP by Radiohead from 2016 released on the XL Recordings label.

About this album

A Moon Shaped Pool is one of Radiohead’s most affecting later statements, folding art rock, chamber arrangements and electronic detail into a bleak, beautifully controlled whole. Released in 2016, the album arrived after a long gap and drew on material that had been developed over several years, giving songs such as Burn the Witch, Daydreaming and True Love Waits a sense of hard-won finality. Produced with longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich, it pairs orchestral colouring and fractured rhythm with Thom Yorke’s preoccupied lyricism, turning grief, distance and memory into something precise rather than overheated. The result is a late-period Radiohead record that deepened their reputation for restless reinvention.