In the buildup to the release of A Moon Shaped Pool, the video for Daydreaming had Thom Yorke walking through twenty-three doors, likely referencing his past relationship with longtime partner Rachel Owens of twenty-three years before the song ends on a back masked and heavily distorted call of "half of my life".
It'd be easy to blame a traumatic breakup and death of producer Nigel Godrich's father during the time between The King of Limbs and now, but Yorke and Godrich were involved in a solo album and a side-project release whilst the other band members also continued to expand their solo discographies so, before listening to the album, I wondered why it took five years and whether, much like the extended break between In Rainbows and TKoL, whether it was worth the wait.
