ĭuring the tour for their eighth album, The King of Limbs (2011), Radiohead performed new material, including the future Moon Shaped Pool tracks "Identikit" and "Ful Stop". The songwriter, Thom Yorke, first performed "Present Tense" in a solo set at the UK Latitude Festival in 2009. Radiohead first worked on " Burn the Witch" in the sessions for Kid A (2000) and again in subsequent album sessions. Over the years, it became one of their best-known unreleased songs. Radiohead first performed " True Love Waits" in 1995, and attempted to record it several times, but could not settle on an arrangement. Several songs on A Moon Shaped Pool were written years before the recording. It is certified gold in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, France and Italy. It topped the charts in several countries, becoming Radiohead's sixth number one on the UK Album Charts, and was a bestseller on vinyl. It was the fifth Radiohead album nominated for the Mercury Prize, and was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Song (for "Burn the Witch") at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. The tour included a performance in Tel Aviv, which drew criticism from supporters of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, a campaign for an international cultural boycott of Israel.Ī Moon Shaped Pool was named one of the best albums of the year and decade by many publications. Radiohead toured in 2016, 20, with headline performances at festivals including Glastonbury and Coachella. Radiohead promoted A Moon Shaped Pool with singles and videos for "Burn the Witch" and " Daydreaming", a viral campaign of postcards and social media posts, and a series of video vignettes. Radiohead's longtime collaborator Stanley Donwood created the abstract cover by exposing his paintings to weather. Many critics saw them as a response to the split of the singer, Thom Yorke, from his wife, Rachel Owen. The lyrics address climate change, groupthink and heartbreak. Several songs, such as " True Love Waits" and " Burn the Witch", were written years earlier. It features strings and choral vocals arranged by the guitarist Jonny Greenwood and performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra. Radiohead recorded A Moon Shaped Pool in RAK Studios in London, their studio in Oxford, and the La Fabrique studio in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. It was produced by Radiohead's longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich. It was released digitally on, with a retail release on 17 June 2016 through XL Recordings. A Moon Shaped Pool is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead.
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