A Moon Shaped Pool starts at the end. All screeching strings and thudding drums, “Burn the Witch” is a burning forest, a cacophonous apocalypse whose conclusion climbs like fire ‘til it suddenly dies. The next song, “Daydreaming”, is its sonic opposite: soft, ethereal piano meanders among gently sinister vocals and strings, a ghost wandering the […]
A Moon Shaped Pool
Paranoid Fan-Droid: Why I Stan Radiohead
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead. Where to begin? Formed in 1985 in Oxfordshire, the band have been a cultural mainstay since their 1992 grunge anthem, ‘Creep’. With a career spanning nine Grammy-winning albums, three headlining Glastonbury performances, and no less than six ground-breaking commercial, cinematic and technological innovations in the music industry, they’re easily one of the […]
Late To The Party: Radiohead – Pablo Honey
I’ve never listened to Pablo Honey in its entirety. What’s the point? It’s decidedly not considered a classic album. In fact, it’s one of the very few Radiohead albums which isn’t. Whether on internet message boards – “Pablo Honey just isn’t worth the listen… it’s like eating the crumbs out of a chip bag when […]