tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476074033725355913.post5692374869882288141..comments2023-07-08T08:49:49.099-07:00Comments on You are now breathing manually: Live Review - Radiohead - A Moon Shaped PoolKeatstahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741718834045515897noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476074033725355913.post-60390637049832838422016-05-10T14:03:45.289-07:002016-05-10T14:03:45.289-07:00Thanks very much :) Trying to mirror the emotional...Thanks very much :) Trying to mirror the emotional experience I had listening to it in words is the number one goal of these reviews, and hearing that it was able to impart that forward is the ultimate proof of some success! You've done a really nice job articulating the feeling of this album, too. Is this your blog? https://alanbumstead.wordpress.com/ I'm really enjoying it.Keatstahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12741718834045515897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476074033725355913.post-2427062655028779002016-05-09T03:19:02.853-07:002016-05-09T03:19:02.853-07:00I'm hearing what you're hearing in languag...I'm hearing what you're hearing in language, replicating the mood changes of the record playing in real time, and it's almost as visceral as the record itself, though the pleasure of reading operates in a completely different part of the brain to music. This music, as a collection of sounds, sans "meaning" is like a bed of constantly shifting pillows. It's ambient and where it's not ambient, everything is cushioned by a softness that bathes you in its glow. There's a superfine digital sheen beneath everything that somehow makes the whole thing quite synthetic in the same way that the National use repetition and soft tones to entrance the listener in tone-ology. This Radiohead achieves the same effect but at a scarily detailed level. The 'hooks' are myriad, out of sync, discernably tense and real, the layering is its genius.Alan Bumsteadnoreply@blogger.com