ATOM HEART MOTHER

This album continues Pink Floyd's transition from Syd Barrett's psychedelic style to the spacy, but highly compelling style they perfected by the time "Dark Side Of The Moon" was released. Easily, the best song, or suite of songs, is Atom Heart Mother. This is probably the closest PF came to true symphonic prog. It helps that it also has an orchestra as well. It also contains a section that previews the sound used on the later, more well known albums. For this song alone, the album deserves a listen.

The other suite, Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast is just too disjointed, and contains too many stretches of sound effects. But still, it shows where the band was heading.

There are also many segments which feature David Gilmour's slide guitar, which will become another integral part of the band's sound.

A nod to the band's past is Summer '68, a pure psychedelic piece that would have fit on the any of the early releases.

An uneven album, but historic.