A Moon Shaped Pool – Box Set
In addition to the album — pressed on two vinyl discs and included on CD — this special-edition version of Pool packs an assortment of additional bonus material, including a 32-page book and a half-inch snippet of tape culled from a session for one of the group’s albums.
“The tape degrades over time and becomes unplayable. We thought rather than it ending up as landfill we would cut it up and make it useful as a part of the special edition. A new life for some obsolete technology,” they explained in the press release announcing the box. “Each loop contains about three-quarters of a second of audio – which could be from any era in the band’s recording past going back to Kid A. You may have silence, you may have coloured leader tape, you may have a chorus… It’s a crapshoot.”
The previously unreleased track Ill Wind was recorded during the same sessions that produced the LP. It’s one of two bonus cuts included on the Moon Shaped Pool box; the other, “Spectre,” was released last year after being passed over for consideration as the theme song for the most recent James Bond movie.
This beautiful deluxe edition contains:
- Case bound album, inspired by the albums for 78rpm shellac records in the library of La Fabrique, France
- 32 pages of artwork
- The 11 track album on two heavyweight 12" vinyl records
- Two compact discs: one with the album and one with two extra tracks
- Recording tape belly band applied
- 320kbit MP3 or 16-bit WAV of the 11 track album available to download