ATOM HEART MOTHER

After "A saucerful of secrets" and "Ummagumma" came "Atom heart mother" and it clearly made a huge difference in the sound and the course of the band's career.

The album starts with a 23 minutes instrumental opus with orchestral arrangements by Ron Geesin, this was something new, something notably different from their earlier recordings; for starts, "Atom heart mother" became Pink Floyd's longest song (approximately 20 seconds longer than "Echoes", which was released next year) and the orchestral arrangements were something that hadn't appeared before in any of their albums (it was not new in general music since several bands would have already made songs with that kind of arrangements but it was an innovation to their own discography). The song is beautiful and says that the B-side of the album is going to be filled with amazing music too.

The B-side of the album has four more songs, three really sweet short rock ballads and the last one is a 13 minutes experimental/instrumental song. The first of these four songs is "If", which is a short acoustic and very soft melody composed by Roger Waters; then comes "Summer '68", composed by Richard Wright, which starts with a soft piano melody and then it has trumpets changing the melody into something rockier.

The fourth song of the album is "Fat old sun", composed by David Gilmour which starts with slide acoustic guitar and finishes with an epic electric guitar solo; finally comes "Alan's psychedelic breakfast", the 13 minutes instrumental epic which has sounds of a guy named Alan having breakfast, it is awesome to hear the cutlery, the box of cereal, the bacon in the pan, etc. This music would give the first steps into Pink Floyd's iconic real-life samplers that would give their following albums the amazing touch that they have.

SONG RATING: Atom heart mother, 5 If, 4 Summer 68, 4 Fat old Sun, 4 Alan's psychedelic breakfast, 4

AVERAGE: 4.2

PERCENTAGE: 84

ALBUM RATING: 4 stars

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