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Yorke expands on the space imagery on 'Decks Dark,' singing, 'In your life, there comes a darkness / This spacecraft blocking out the sky / And there's nowhere to hide.' Radiohead returns even more to a rock base on 'Desert Island Disk,' built off a minimalist acoustic guitar, and the gloomy 'Decks Dark.' 'Burn the Witch,' the first single off the album, is built off strings played by the London Contemporary Orchestra but comes together as a tightly written rock song with a hard-driving bassline, as frontman Thom Yorke sings of mass hysteria with lines such as, 'This is a low-flying panic attack.' But the album nonetheless offers some of the band's most accessible music since its transition.

Radiohead had heralded a new chapter in music culture in the mid-1990s by moving away from the jamming guitars that characterized alternative rock and heading full-speed into synthesized innovation on now seminal albums such as OK Computer and Kid A.Ī Moon Shaped Pool does not come full circle, with Radiohead little interested in simply revisiting the past. Radiohead, the band for two decades synonymous with experimentation, has inched back to its rock roots on a long-awaited album that seizes on space as a symbol of individual darkness.Ī Moon Shaped Pool, the ninth album by the Oxford, England-based group, came out Sunday with two days prior notice and, in an affirmation of its principles, Radiohead boycotted leading streaming service Spotify. Thom Yorke of Radiohead performs during the band's headlining set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California on April 14, 2012.

Ok computer radiohead set in the future the roots