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Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)

Just so you guys know, this was my album review ever. Wrote it for a college class last year. Radiohead   is undoubtedly  on e  of the most  unique  bands of modern times,  as evident  by their  constant stylistic changes  since their song “Creep” hit the airwaves in  1993 .  They  transformed  from a typical alternative rock band  into an eccentric group that utilized digital instruments as much as real ones.  They  went with a simple approach for the ninth rec ord, and sometimes less is more  as they say. This album has a gentler feel, absent of the hard-biting moments of albums past. They used to occasionally crank up the distortion in songs like Paranoid An droid or Bodysnatchers , or use pulsating  drumbeats as present on Morning Bell. Instead, the songs on a Moon Shaped Pool build up to a climax,  usually  minimalist only to add  instruments  gradually . This approach a...