OBSCURED BY CLOUDS

Pink Floyd's 'Obscured by Clouds' is an slightly lo-fi soundtrack album that has the band performing unfinished instrumentals and leftover of hastily written songs. Because of the lack of pretentiousness it is actually a fine listen, it shows the band in a different gear. Most of these songs and compositions sound like the laid-back first side of 'Meddle' (minus 'Careful With That Axe'). The two opening tracks have some nice guitar leads by Gilmour, simple and highly effective prog rock. Though slightly better than 'More', I found I could easily live without this Pink Floyd album - though I hold no grudge against it. Might even prefer it to the overly polished 'Animals' and 'Wish You Were hear'. Fans release.