I been listening to the final "Pink Floyd" album.... really interesting... I wonder what the motivation was behind it.. I see it almost as a tribute/recognition of Wright... he has a ton of songwriting credits.. his parts take precedence (there are vocals on only one track out of 18).. and even the subject matter reminds me of Wright's fine solo album Broken China.. instead of "Drowning"on Broken China we have "Surfacing" (maybe an analogous piece to "Breakthrough"? Some of the song titles also seem to allude to relationship problems (maybe between Wright and Gilmour in the past?)..
David Gilmour's guitar work is so unbelievably tasty on it... I used to think maybe Knopfler has the best guitar sound but for the past few years I been thinking Gilmour...its just a vintage performance from David... I suppose most of it is from 1993 with some good editing from Youth etc...even Gilmour's vocal on the lone vocal tracks sounds great compared to say GIlmour's voice on his solo album from 2015 where he sound much diminished (25 years is 25 years)
anyways, its definitely an instrumental background music type album but there are so many points in the album that recall Pink Floyd moments be it from the Floyd forgery A Momentary Lapse of Reason or the vintage 70s records... even some of the instrumentation used.. like the VCS3 which is all oer DSOTM and which both Wright and Gilmour employ on this final album.....
There are no "hits" on this one but crank it in the car and if you like Floyd I would be surprised if you didn't find yourself listening attentively..
I will add that after spending many years in the Waters camp of Floyd I have done a virtual 180 the past few years.. I find the Waters-centric Animals and the Wall tedious compared to earlier Floyd..
