ATOM HEART MOTHER

While early Pink Floyd is often shunned for being too experimental and/or 'not Pink Floyd', the 1970 LP 'Atom Heart Mother' is when the band finally found their balance. Being their first studio album (not counting 'Ummagumma') entirely without Barrett, they were still finding themselves as a band who lost their guitarist. But, continuing to follow their wildly experimental ways, they had inserted an eponymic, six-part twenty-four-minute instrumental epic into the first side. Fusing progressive and classical elements, the first side of Atom Heart Mother was and still is a strong track in Floyd's discography. The second half holds four relatively shorter songs, starting with the folky 'If', the very unlike Pink Floyd 'Summer '68' (the majority, at least), and the mostly acoustic 'Fat Old Sun'. The closing track, 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast', is a three-part twelve-minute song with interludes of a Pink Floyd crew-member eating his breakfast. In its vast obscurity and abstract genius, Atom Heart Mother is what you could easily call a rock masterpiece.

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