Pink Floyd to release new album

[The Man]

David Gilmour's wife Polly Samson nonchalantly broke the news on Twitter. The album will contain parts recorded by Richard Wright in 1994. There's no news of Waters being involved, unfortunately, but at least Gilmour and Mason are also involved.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

[Hermit]

Pink Floyd was formed in1965. By 1967 the members were Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Richard Wright. Barrett left the band in 1968, Wright in 1979 and Waters in 1985. I don't know if a recording made in 1994 by Gilmour, Mason and session musicians can be regarded as a product of Pink Floyd.

I wish they had done what the Beatles did - make the final cut, ring the division bell and split.

Their creativity eventually hit the wall. It definitely was not an endless river, but this insight was apparently obscured by clouds to the remaining two original members, causing a lapse of reason which in turn caused them to continue meddling about by using the glorious achievements from the band's past.

[Pan Narrans]

Originally Posted by Hermit

Their creativity eventually hit the wall.

[curses]

You know, I quite liked Division Bell. Semantics on whether it is Pink Floyd or not aside it was a solid album.

That being said the Syd Barrett albums are by far the best. Roger Waters takes himself too seriously. So does Gilmour.

[Sock Puppet]

There's really only one Barrett album; the second album is mostly Waters-helmed, with one Barrett song at the end. Unless you count Relics, I guess, which is a compilation of singles/outtakes and isn't all Barrett stuff anyway.

I actually liked Momentary Lapse better than Division Bell, even though it's really just a Gilmour album with Wright and Mason playing on it (although Mason was somewhat involved in the creative side, Wright was essentially just invited to play on it). Division Bell felt a bit flabby and tired, although "High Hopes" was fantastic. But both albums have a Pink Floyd sound that is lacking from anything Waters did solo; if that's because they're a "well-executed counterfeit" (Waters' description of Momentary Lapse), I really don't care.

Coincidentally, I just saw the Gilmour Live at Gdansk concert video. At first I was puzzled to see Wright there, until I realized it was recorded about 2 years before his death. Anyway, I really liked the solo songs from Gilmour's On An Island album, which somehow escaped my notice. I ended up being more interested in those than hearing an umpteenth live version of the old Floyd songs, as well-done as they were.

[SR71]

I thought Gilmour and Mason were a nice pair.