Vinyl Record

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool on 2LP vinyl. A 2016 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

2LP · 2016

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2016 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

A Moon Shaped Pool is Radiohead's 2016 ninth album, released after the rhythmic compression of The King Of Limbs and after several songs had already lived in the band's orbit for years. That history gives the record an unusual feeling: new work that also sounds like a slow reckoning with unfinished ghosts. Burn The Witch opens with urgent strings and social dread; Daydreaming sinks into piano, reversed voices and grief; Decks Dark, Desert Island Disk, Ful Stop, The Numbers, Present Tense and the long-awaited studio version of True Love Waits move through climate anxiety, romantic loss, surveillance, withdrawal and fragile acceptance. Jonny Greenwood's orchestral writing is central, but the album is not simply lush. Its beauty is nervous, often suspended over silence or pulse. In 2016, Radiohead no longer needed to prove they could reinvent rock, digital release culture or studio language. A Moon Shaped Pool matters because it sounds like a band letting accumulated time become the subject. Old songs, public dread and private endings are folded into one of their most emotionally direct records.

A Moon Shaped Pool matters because it joined Radiohead's experimental discipline to rare emotional clarity. It gathered long-evolving material into a 2016 album that feels personal, political and orchestral without grandstanding, giving the catalogue a late masterpiece of restraint and dread.

For collectors, A Moon Shaped Pool is the major 2010s Radiohead LP and a natural counterpart to In Rainbows and The King Of Limbs. Its vinyl appeal is tied to the album's sequence and atmosphere: strings, space, pulse and the final arrival of True Love Waits in studio form.

Elegant late Radiohead with orchestral strings, spectral electronics, piano grief, controlled bass movement, acoustic shadows, political anxiety and fragile melodies under deep restraint.

Recommended for: Radiohead collectors focused on the band's later XL-era catalogue; Listeners drawn to orchestral art rock with emotional and political tension; Fans of Daydreaming, Burn The Witch, Present Tense and True Love Waits.

When was A Moon Shaped Pool released? A Moon Shaped Pool was released digitally in May 2016, with physical formats following in June 2016. Why is True Love Waits significant on A Moon Shaped Pool? The song had existed in Radiohead's live history for years before finally appearing as a studio recording at the end of this album. Which songs define A Moon Shaped Pool? Burn The Witch, Daydreaming, Decks Dark, Ful Stop, Present Tense and True Love Waits define the album's mix of dread, beauty and restraint.