Now, more than twenty-five years after its debut album, the band is being inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, whether it likes it or not - so what better time to take stock of the group’s entire catalog? Radiohead’s dependably strong material makes for an exceptionally tough discography to rank. What was most impressive, then, about A Moon Shaped Pool was that despite having such a full, respected body of work, Radiohead clearly continued to hone their craft. It’s hard to argue that that even the slinky, in-the-moment grooves of The King of Limbs have been underpraised. Plus, for all the business-model significance of the surprise, pay-what-you-want approach to 2007’s In Rainbows, the music itself was as direct, euphoric, and meticulous as any in Radiohead’s catalogue. But then again, almost as much has been said about 2000’s electronics-embracing Kid A, its 2001 kindred spirit Amnesiac, and 2003’s Bush-baiting consolidation move Hail to the Thief. Radiohead’s ascent from the relatively inauspicious college-rock poses of their major-label debut, 1993’s Pablo Honey, to the swelling grandeur of 1995’s The Bends, and on through the textural subtlety of 1997 masterpiece OK Computer has been well documented by a rapturous music press. In fact, Yorke, Greenwood, and Selway, along with guitarist Ed O’Brien and Greenwood’s brother Colin on bass, have been doing some variation of this since attending school together in the mid-’80s. But on A Moon Shaped Pool, that sense of the half-understood sublime, conveyed most powerfully through Yorke’s fragile upper register and foreboding keys, remained undimmed. In the years before that, Yorke has brooded as a glitchy electronic solo artist when not shaking his ponytail as a member of the rhythm-centered Atoms for Peace supergroup multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood has roamed from scoring Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Inherent Vice to recording with traditional musicians in India and drummer Phil Selway has devised his own singer/songwriter miniatures. quintet’s more recent activity has been just as fascinating: Their ninth studio album, A Moon Shaped Pool, was released in 2016. Radiohead Have a Very British Outlook on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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