A Moon Shaped Pool (studio album) by Radiohead

A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead
Year: 2016
Release date: 2016-05-08
Overall rank: 78th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
87/100 (from 2,138 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Best album of 2016 (1st)
Award Top 10 albums of the 2010s (6th)
Award Top 100 albums of all time (78th)
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Radiohead bestography

A Moon Shaped Pool is ranked 5th best out of 23 albums by Radiohead on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Radiohead is OK Computer which is ranked number 1 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 68,326.

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A Moon Shaped Pool track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 89 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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2025bonnequestionTop 23 Music Albums of 20161/235
2025cicadelicPost-Trash's Best of 2016 | Staff Picks17/50 -
2025 hoyquarlowTop 10 Music Albums of the 2010s4/1014
2025 KeatownrodriguezTop 39 Music Albums of 201619/393
2025 BristocTop 100 Greatest Music Albums60/10040
2025fabm0Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s5/10019
2025 arthur237Top 100 Greatest Music Albums59/10041
2025 viquelTop 100 Greatest Music Albums25/10074
2025VanillaBeanTop 71 Music Albums of the 2010s62/713
2025RiveraTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s61/1008
2025bonnequestionTop 100 Greatest Music Albums28/10073
2025 HaydenTop 100 Music Albums of 201613/1004
2025BoxFLTop 25 Music Albums of the 2010s4/2518
2025pinkfreud1981Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s28/10015
2025wizardalienTop 100 Greatest British Albums89/100 -
2025SUPERJEFF6Top 100 Greatest Music Albums40/10059
2025ThuramThugoodPt 2: Greatest Albums Ever - (Part 2): 101-200. | All-Time4/50 -
2025frankoceanloverTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s17/10017
2025wizardalienMy Ranking of the BEA Top 10032/86 -
2025 TamthebamTop 100 Greatest Music Albums41/10060
Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 1,388
Total Rank Score: The total rank score. 15,923

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87/100 (from 2,138 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 86.7/100, a mean average of 85.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.

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70/100
From 11/25/2024 17:35
The standout tracks: Burn the Witch is such a dynamic and hypnotic opening track that it makes me wish the rest of the album kept up this pace. Desert Island Disk is sublime and True Love Waits is a heartbreaking closer.
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75/100
From 05/04/2024 10:46
This is probably either my third or fourth favourite Radiohead album. It's that good.
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From 03/11/2024 14:19
Such a chill album but emotional at the same time
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From 02/24/2024 12:34
In no way, shape or form should this album be in the Top 100 Greatest Albums Of All Time.
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Rating:  
65/100
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From 04/19/2023 10:15
One of my favorite records of Radiohead just because of the overall depressing feeling it has. Decks Dark is a perfect song.
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85/100
From 01/26/2023 23:13
86.36

Calculo que habré escuchado este álbum unas 5 veces, considerando que he repetido algunas canciones cientas de veces, como Daydreaming, Decks Dark y True Love Waits, mis 3 favoritas personalmente, seguidas de cerca por Present Tense. Probablemente el último álbum que nos entregue Radiohead. No tienen que lanzar otro más. Es un gran cierre a una genial discografía. Por supuesto que me gustaría que lancen otro, ¿cómo no? Mas eso escapa de mi poder. Thom y Jonny están enfocados en proyectos como The Smile.

En fin, hablemos de A Moon Shaped Pool, la frase que repite Thom armonizando en Identikit y que le da el título al álbum. Es muy sólido, pero como cualquiera tiene sus ups and downs: están Desert Island Disk y Tinker Tailor que son throw-away tracks, Desert siendo un poco superior. El resto goza de una solidez innegable. Burn the Witch abre el álbum de manera solemne, cuasi-vanguardista, una canción cuyo videoclip no puede ser pasado por alto. Daydreaming es quizá el punto álgido del disco, tan solo como segundo tema. La melancolía condensada que define el estilo de Radiohead mimetiza su epítome sonoro para inmortalizar una de las mejores canciones de la banda. Al final se incluyen ronquidos reminiscentes a los de A Day in the Life, la mejor canción de la historia. Decks Dark es un tema que mejora cuanto más se escucha, sobre todo la última parte, el outro o el bridge si se quiere así. Ful Stop y Glass Eyes forman una dupla curiosa hacia la mitad del álbum, no creo personalmente que lo sostengan tan bien, pero eso varía entre gustos. Siento que Ful Stop está muy altamente calificada en este sitio web. Glass Eyes, con menos de 3 minutos, podría ser tranquilamente una throw-away track de ser otra banda, pero desde que comienza la producción te sobrecoge de manera inenarrable. Identikit es una obra maestra, de la misma manera que Present Tense, esta última quizá cara a cara con Daydreaming como la mejor canción del disco. The Numbers n'est pas mal. El cierre es brillante. Si Thom no había podido completar True Love Waits hacia los 90s, menos mal que se decidió postergar su lanzamiento, así como con Nude, para finalmente ofrecernos esta bellísima, personalísima y desgarradora versión de un tema que inmortaliza a la banda como el último tema de su último disco hasta la fecha.

A Moon Shaped Pool es un disco que debe ser escuchado por lo menos una vez, pues todos los caminos -OKC, Kid A-Amnesiac-HTTT-In Rainbows, conducen al magnífico cierre al que evolucionó una experimental y vanguardista (de todo menos pusilánime) agrupación musical como Radiohead.
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90/100
From 01/18/2023 11:12
A Moon Shaped Pool has all of the hallmarks of a Radiohead album but it feels far more mature in it's delivery and influences. The time spent away from each other learning different crafts has been to the betterment of the band especially Johnny Greenwood's time composing film scores. It comes together to create an album of intense emotion and flair that uses new instrumentation to further extend the talents of the band.
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85/100
From 01/04/2023 19:19
With Radiohead's most recent album, they explore a more spacious and melancholic sound. While this leads to some tracks being potentially less memorable, this makes A Moon Shaped Pool a deeply emotional listen from start to finish, with references to Thom Yorke's personal life alongside global topics like climate change. Radiohead as a group prove that they have remained musical geniuses over several decades of music production , and I sincerely hope that this is not the last we see of them.
Top 3 tracks: True Love Waits, Ful Stop, Daydreaming
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95/100
From 09/20/2022 01:55
What a surprise! I though such a newer album wouldn't hold up as well as the classics. Boy was I wrong!
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