Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour to Release First Album in Nine Years
24.04.2024 - 17:21
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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic David Gilmour, who has often given off the appearance of being happily retired, hasn’t been keeping himself from the studio after all. The ex-Pink Floyd singer-guitarist has announced his first album in nine years, “Luck and Strange,” and he’s giving everyone time to prepare for it, with the release not coming till Sept.
6. The first teaser track is imminent, however, with “The Piper’s Call” due to come out on DSPs on Thursday, to be followed by a music video on Friday.
He also released a short teaser on YouTube featuring himself and his dog in the studio during the mixing process. Gilmour’s fifth solo album will include nine tracks in all, eight of them originals and the ninth being a cover of the Montgolfier Brothers’ “Between Two Points.” Musicians include bassists Guy Pratt and Tom Herbert; drummers Adam Betts, Steve Gadd and Steve DiStanislao; Rob Gentry and Roger Eno on keyboards; and Will Gardner arranging strings and choral backup.
The album is reported to have been recorded in Brighton and London over a period of five months. Predating those newer recording sessions, obviously, the late Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright is also heard from, even though he died in 2008 at age 65.
The album includes a part he recorded in 2007 at a barn jam at Gilmour’s house. Lyrics have mostly been written by Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson, as has been the case with Gilmour’s albums for decades, and the latter-day/post-Roger Waters material that Pink Floyd did before retiring the moniker, Samson said in a statement that the songs are “written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.” Other family members also contribute, harking back to family
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