After getting teased more than a nerd at recess, Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool is finally available on the digital download service of your choice (or at least iTunes, Google Play, and the official Radiohead website). Over the last week, the band sent creepy stuff to fans in the mail, faded away from the internet like Marty McFly, and then actually put out some videos, but now Thom Yorke and the rest of the Radioheads have stopped goofing around and given all of us exactly what we want: more Radiohead music to buy/brag about not buying so we can act like we’re too cool for it.
The album is titled A Moon Shaped Pool, with its lack of a hyphen suggesting that it’s about a thing named Pool that was shaped by a moon (as opposed to a pool shaped like a moon), and though the digital version is available now, the CD and vinyl versions will be released on June 17. However, for Radiohead-heads who like their albums a little fancier, there’s a Special Edition that includes the album on vinyl and CD, as well as two extra tracks, 32 pages of art, and a little piece of tape from one of the band’s master recordings. As the official site explains, the tape contains less than a second of audio and it could be “from any era in the band’s recording past going back to Kid A.”
The album art and previously released videos for A Moon Shaped Pool are below, along with Radiohead’s upcoming tour dates.
Radiohead Tour 2016
May 20-21—Heineken Music Hall—Amsterdam, Netherlands
May 23-24—Le Zenith—Paris, France
May 26-28—Roundhouse—London, England