Radiohead tour: What makes 'A Moon Shaped Pool' a hit?
Radiohead have announced 2017 American tour dates after releasing the critically acclaimed 2016 album 'A Moon Shaped Pool,' which critics called 'gorgeously orchestrated,' with the group having 'rarely ... sounded surer of its strengths.'
Radiohead have announced 2017 American tour dates after releasing the critically acclaimed 2016 album 'A Moon Shaped Pool,' which critics called 'gorgeously orchestrated,' with the group having 'rarely ... sounded surer of its strengths.'
The band Radiohead will tour in America and Europe following the release of their critically well-received 2016 album 鈥淎 Moon-Shaped Pool.鈥澛�
In addition to appearing at the music festival Coachella while they are in America, Radiohead will also appear in cities such as Miami, where the tour will kick off on March 30, and Atlanta, Seattle, and Santa Barbara, Calif.
The band will then travel to Europe, where it will perform in Oslo, Milan, and at the Glastonbury Festival in Britain, among other dates in the W.A.S.T.E. tour.聽
Radiohead released its most recent album, 鈥淎 Moon Shaped Pool,鈥� this past summer and the work was well-received by reviewers, with some naming it to their list of the best releases of the year.
Rolling Stone staff聽did so, calling the album 鈥済orgeously orchestrated.鈥�
鈥淚n ballads like 鈥楧ecks Dark,鈥� Yorke sounds overwhelmed by the alien strings and dub bass, as if he awoke from the troubled dreams of 鈥楰id A鈥� or 鈥楢mnesiac鈥� to find real life was no longer recognizable,鈥� the music staff wrote, calling 鈥淢oon鈥澛犫�減erhaps the band's聽鈥渕ost ravishingly beautiful album, awash in piano and violin and acoustic guitar frills straight out of 鈥楲ed Zeppelin III鈥�.... Yet somehow it's never soothing 鈥� as Yorke warns here, the truth will mess you up.鈥�
New York Times staff also put 鈥淢oon鈥� on its list of the best albums of 2016.聽鈥淩adiohead has uncorked more snarl before, and strained harder against formalities,鈥� critic Nate Chinen wrote,聽鈥渂ut rarely has it sounded surer of its strengths 鈥� or more flat-out gorgeous, as Jonny Greenwood鈥檚 orchestrations deepen the glassy disquiet.鈥澛�
The band鈥檚 previous releases include 1997鈥檚 鈥淥K Computer鈥� and 2000鈥檚 鈥淜id A.鈥� 鈥淢oon鈥� was Radiohead鈥檚 first album since 2011鈥檚 鈥淭he King of Limbs.鈥�