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Still sealed digibook

Pink Floyd’s final album The Endless River was released in 2014 and it was an album that got mixed reviews. I can understand if people who were expecting the band to deliver something in the line of Wish You Were Here or The Wall are disappointed but on the other hand these people must have been on the dark side of the moon for the last year. For months and months and months, both Nick Mason and David Gilmour told the entire world that this was going to be an ambient album made up of passed bits of music made as a homage to Richard Wright. And die hard fans of the band should also now that this wasnt a new idea as they already had talked about making an album like this in the mid 90s after the release of The Division Bell. After Wright’s passing they finally felt it was the right time and both Gilmour and Mason put a lot of passion into the project and Gilmour’s usual musical perfectionism lead the way. In a real sense, this album works as the best marriage of the classic psychedelic and early-prog Floyd with the modern Gilmour-led band. The series of instrumental vignettes re-visit ideas and passages from the band’s past, anywhere from Saucerful Of Secrets to Wish You Were Here, while utilizing the production standards from the two Gilmour albums. And the lone song with vocals, the regret-sounding, melancholy Louder Than Words, sums up the history and feeling of the band from their lost period, from the late 70s to the new millennium. And kudos to the production team, as well as Gilmour and Nick Mason, who were able to take the keyboard parts of the too-soon-departed Richard Wright and construct some fantastic, coherent pieces of music seamlessly around them. It sounds as if Wright was right there as an active participant in the studio. So make no mistake, this is not an album to party to. It was never meant to be and was never promoted as such. Pink Floyd has left their mark, they are already legends. This is an album for Pink Floyd fans, especially those who loved and respected Richard Wright, to take a dreamy voyage through the bands career ending back at The Division Bell. All in all this is truly a fitting end to an amazing band and an amazing man.

Track list:
1. Things Left Unsaid
2. It’s What We Do
3. Ebb And Flow
4. Sum
5. Skins
6. Unsung
7. Anisina
8. The Lost Art Of Conversation
9. On Noodle Street
10. Night Light
11. Allons-y 1
12. Autumn 68
13. Allons-y 2
14. Talkin Hawkin
15. Calling
16. Eyes To Pearls
17. Surfacing
18. Louder Than Words