THE DIVISION BELL

In my opinion, PF were never virtuosos (with the best instrumentalists being definitely David and Richard; the rhythm section was always weaker) but they played mostly relaxed smooth music. In principle, PF used to make very simple 2-3 accord compositions and I liked them. But wherein they were revolutionary was how they dressed up their songs. Thus, they were progressive in the final production but not in composing and playing. If you unclothe all the progressive togs and themes around, what you get are just simple folk or blues songs, which is not bad too. However, I like David's solo work more. They seem cleaner to me, with more straightforward musicality. And in these two w/o-RW PF album it became obvious again that David Gilmour was an excellent song-writer, smooth guitarist and ear-pleasing vocalist....The songs are relaxed, not depressive, melodic, simply not bad and not boring. Lyrics are simpler too, with much less egocentrism than it was the case in former PF or solo works of Roger Waters. The music is of the same kind as David's solo works, but with much deeper impact of Richard Wright (also as a composer and singer again) making the final sound more magic and mysterious, e.g. as in echoes or shine on. Pleasant and enjoyable again.. I won't name the best tracks, cause there no outstanding, they are all a fine standart. I think that these two album represent the bright side of the moon within PF. I only do not understand why have been these two or three musicains so ungenerous with in their music having released one album per decade.