Pink FLoyd - The Endless River

This sounds nice. I hope it really does it well.

Almost there.

Well, most 'casual' fans will know Dark Side, WYWH and The Wall. This album will come as a shock to most of those folks who think its 'cool' to listen to Floyd........

...and possibly a new solo album from David Gilmour in the near future - that is also exciting news.

Got my order of The Box set through, im looking very much forward to its arrival :-)

Cheers

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Edited by jude111 - November 06 2014 at 19:12

Went into our local music chain in Australia called JB Hifi and grabbed the standard CD (I was after the Bluray set, but there's a delay on it). I found just a few copies, placed alongside their previous albums.

I don't know...clearly I am just so out of touch that I kind of expected to see maybe a cardboard stand set up with dozens of copies, or maybe a poster or two....but no, just a few copies stacked with their endless reissues and nothing else to draw attention to it.

Now, I don't know if they'd put it out a few days early, so were trying to downplay it already being on the shelves, or that the days of big new albums being released are well and truly over, but it all seemed so....meh.

But as for the music, it generally sounds wonderful, certainly one of their most ambient/chilled-out albums. There's perhaps the odd moments here and there that try a bit too hard to make people think of their past albums ("Hey, that bit sounds just like `The Wall/Shine On/Dark Side...etc etc"), but there's plenty of sections that display real magic and exciting new directions they could have headed in...but now never will. In some ways, they try so hard to make you think of all the previous albums that it lets the parts of the album that are fresh and different down. But if you think of it as a loving farewell tribute and closure of their amazing past, this could be more forgiving.

Fans should cherish the album because this will probably be the last time you ever get to walk into a store and buy a BRAND NEW Pink Floyd album, and perhaps for some younger ones who've come to love the band, it will be their first and only time!

But without question, it's a triumph for intelligent, thoughtful music in an age where music is generally so disposable and unimportant.

Hope you guys enjoy it!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - November 07 2014 at 05:17

It was already released in Australia? Here it's next monday.

I listened to some tracks on youtube, and those similarities didn't sound very good at first, but I believe they had good intentions putting those there.

Either way, I'm still excited: as you say, it will be my first and only time I buy a brand new Floyd album.

I hope to read your review, if you write one of course

Or they probably don't care about release dates, I remember seeing PF 2011 remasters in the stores some days before their official release.

Surprisingly, I was one of the first to pre-order the album, two weeks ago, so probably the days of big new albums are truly over. It can also be proved by the Amazon pre-order record: most people buy digitally or don't go to record stores like before or don't buy at all.

Angelo wrote: Kicked it up in Spotify. First few minutes are definitely the Floyd from the dark ages.

I can only see 1 track on Spotify - Side 3, Pt. 4: Allons-y. Is there anything else?