Radiohead memang telah dikenal sebagai band yang sangat cerdas. Band rock asal Inggris ini telah merilis album baru “A Moon Shaped Pool” pada 8 Mei 2016. Kali ini memiliki pemahaman yang unik dan lebih personal.
Album studio ketujuh oleh band dengan personel Thom Yorke, Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien dan Philip Selway ini menceritakan tentang begitu mudahnya memasuki kedalam banalitas. Itu artinya pendengar diajak untuk memasuki sebuah keliaran yang sulit diterima akal sehat.
Tracklist
1. “Burn the Witch”
2. “Daydreaming”
3. “Decks Dark”
4. “Desert Island Disk”
5. “Ful Stop”
6. “Glass Eyes”
7. “Identikit”
8. “The Numbers”
9. “Present Tense”
10. “Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief”
11. “True Love Waits”
Uniknya, Radiohead mendistribusikan album A Moon Shaped Pool melalui cara baru, yakni penggemar bisa mendownload album dengan BitTorrent. Dan inilah pesan dari mereka;
As an experiment we are using a new version of BitTorrent to distribute a new Thom Yorke record.
The new Torrent files have a pay gate to access a bundle of files..
The files can be anything, but in this case is an ‘album’.
It’s an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around …
If it works well it could be an effective way of handing some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work.
Enabling those people who make either music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves.
Bypassing the self elected gate-keepers.
If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.
The torrent mechanism does not require any server uploading or hosting costs or ‘cloud’ malarkey.
It’s a self-contained embeddable shop front…
The network not only carries the traffic, it also hosts the file. The file is in the network.
Oh yes and it’s called
Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes.
Thom Yorke & Nigel Godrich
Atau bisa kunjungi halaman resmi album A Moon Shaped Pool di www.amoonshapedpool.com
