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Radiohead: Daydreaming

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Have you heard the new album? Read the review of the album and summarise it including these words in your summary: lullaby - somnambulant - chill-out - ballads - album - vision - self-assurance

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The Telegraph May 2016

Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool album review: ‘you’ll love it more with every listen’

Radiohead have always had a way with a lullaby. Now they have produced an entire album of the kind of songs that could lull you into sleep, but may give you nightmares.

The driving momentum of first single Burn the Witch may have implied something more full-blooded, but it turns out their ninth album takes its cues from the moody drift of second track Daydreaming, a somnambulant stumble through half-waking

dreamscapes where sounds and images collide but never quite come into focus.

A Moon Shaped Pool turns out to be Radiohead’s most melodically accessible collection, almost meditative in its ethereal mid-tempo loveliness, yet shot through with the kind of edgy details that never quite let a listener relax. It is chill-out music to put your nerves on edge.

On A Moon Shaped Pool they give ballads full sway, closing the album with the exquisitely gorgeous True Love Waits, a song that has featured in their sets since 1995 and was previously released as a live solo acoustic version on an EP in 2001. Here, Yorke’s guitar has been replaced by echoing,

ambient keyboard figures, but the essential brooding beauty of the original remains, a love song that sounds like a threat.

Closing with a song that has been knocking around for over 20 years may imply a lack of inspiration, but actually I suspect Radiohead are a band with the vision and patience to wait for the right framework for this little masterpiece.

The melodic sweetness and sometimes gentle ambience of Moon Shaped Pool may represent Radiohead at their least bloodthirsty and most accessible, but there are depths and riches here to suggest a work of total self-assurance.

It is an album you could grow to love more with every listen.

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Are you a fan of Radiohead’s music? Listen to the song that the reviewer says the album takes its cues from and say what you think of it.

Radiohead have just released a new album. What did they do prior to releasing it?

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Order the lines on the next page to make the lyrics to the song. Then listen again and check your ideas.

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Radiohead: Daydreaming listening + reading

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Just happy to serve (repeated)

The damage is done (repeated)

Dreamers

Beyond the point

Where the sun comes

And it’s too late

You

This goes

Beyond you

By a window

Beyond me

Through

We are

Of no return (repeated)

The white room

They never learn (repeated)

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Dreamers

Rearrange the letters to make the words defined. They were all in the article.V1 ablyull a relaxing song that helps a young child go to sleep2 htmanigre a very frightening and unpleasant dream3 clidole meet or come together with something that is very different4 gyed innovative, daring, unconventional, etc. 5 illch-tou (of music) relaxing, ambient6 ets a collection of songs that musicians play during a performance7 reatht a declaration of the intention to inflict harm, pain, or misery8 kalc an insufficiency, shortage, or absence of something required or desired

Complete these sentences with the correct form of the words:V1 Ibiza is famous for its _________________ music.2 The ____________ of housing in London means prices are very high. 3 I always sing a ____________________ to my daughter to get her to fall asleep. 4 Glastonbury used to be an ______________ music festival, but now it is very mainstream.5 The conservative and liberal politicians ____________________ in a TV debate. 6 I had a _______________________ last night that I was being chased by giant spiders.7 The band played four old favourites and three new tracks during their _________.

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Radiohead: Daydreaming listening + reading

EWhat do the highlighted words in these extracts from the article mean?

The Telegraph May 2016

The driving momentum of first single Burn the Witch may have implied something more full-blooded…The melodic sweetness and sometimes gentle ambience of Moon Shaped Pool may represent Radiohead at their least bloodthirsty…

Now match them to the explanations below.V

8 Obama’s ______________ that Britain would go to the back of the queue if it left the EU did not go down well with many Britons.

There are other blood expressions in English. What do you think these mean?

1 a rush of blood (to the head) 2 you can't get blood from a stone 3 bad blood4 blood is thicker than water 5 blood, sweat and tears 6 be in your blood 7 make someone’s blood boil

____ a sudden feeling of excitement or anger leading you to do or say something silly____ animosity (between people)____ come naturally to you often because the skill runs in the family____ people who are related have stronger obligations to each other than to people outside the family____ a lot of effort and suffering____ you cannot ask for or do the impossible____ make someone very angry

React to these statements using the expressions studied:V1 They haven’t spoken to each other since their argument over wage cuts.2 The player said that it was a sudden moment of madness that led him to hit the referee.3 The bank told me they would sue me to get the money I owed them, but I told them that I am broke.4 The CEO promoted his son instead of Keith, who is a much better worker.5 This company is the result of years of hard work and suffering.6 James is a fantastic musician, just like his mother and father.7 I get so angry when I see people using their mobile phones while they are driving.

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week of 16.05.16Radiohead: Daydreamingstudent pages 3Teacher’s notes 1

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Transcript C track 4DreamersThey never learnThey never learnBeyond the pointOf no returnOf no returnAnd it’s too lateThe damage is doneThe damage is doneThis goes

Beyond meBeyond youThe white roomBy a windowWhere the sun comesThroughWe areJust happy to serveJust happy to serveYou

Radiohead have just released a new album. What did they do prior to releasing it?= They deleted all their online presence. All the content from their webpage, Twitter account, etc.

Rearrange the letters to make the words defined. They were all in the article.V1 lullaby 2 nightmare 3 collide 4 edgy 5 chill-out 6 set 7 threat 8 lack

Complete these sentences with the correct form of the words:V1 chill-out 2 lack 3 lullaby 4 edgy 5 collided 6 nightmare 7 set 8 threat

EWhat do the highlighted words in these extracts from the article mean?full-blooded = enthusiastic and determinedbloodthirsty = containing or depicting much violence

1 There's been bad blood between them since their argument over wage cuts.2 The player said that it was a rush of blood to the head that led him to hit the referee.3 You told them they can't get blood from a stone. 4 It's understandable, blood is thicker than water. 5 Blood, sweat and tears went into building the company.6 Music is in his blood. 7 Seeing people using their mobile phones while they are driving makes your blood boil.

1 a sudden feeling of excitement or anger leading you to do or say something silly3 animosity (between people)6 come naturally to you often because the skill runs in the family4 people who are related have stronger obligations to each other than to people outside the family5 a lot of effort and suffering2 you cannot ask for or do the impossible7 make someone very angry

Now match them to the explanations below.V

React to these statements using the expressions studied:VSuggested reactions: