The back cover of A Moon Shaped Pool gives us the tracklist and credits. The tracks are sequenced in alphabetical order, but Jonny Greenwood has downplayed the significance of this:
It just became a torturous, sort of logical argument with yourself where you’re saying, ‘Well it works really well in alphabetical order, but we can’t do that because that’s stupid, but then we can’t not do it just because it does work’ […] Eventually you just get used to it and it sounds right. That’s just how it felt with the first CD burn.
The torn-up painting below the tracklist was, like the rest of AMSP’s artwork, designed by longtime collaborator Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke (credited under his oft-used pseudonym, “Doctor Tchock”). It was not included in the Donwood’s 2017 Paintings from A Moon Shaped Pool exhibition, however, and so this particular painting’s name is unknown.
Above the painting is a dedication to producer Nigel Godrich’s father, Vic, who died while A Moon Shaped Pool was being recorded. When the album was released, Nigel tweeted:
I lost my dad in the process…Hence a large piece of my soul lives here..
..in a good way. I eternally thank my brothers in radiohead for all the love that went into it.. and for their support.
One of the best albums ever conceived.