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Artist: Pink Floyd
Album: The Endless River
Bitrate: 231kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Parlophone
Genre: Progressive Rock
Size: 92.60 megs
PlayTime: 0h 52min 55sec total
Rip Date: 2014-11-06
Store Date: 2014-11-07

Track List:
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01. Things Left Unsaid               4:26
02. It's What We Do                  6:17
03. Ebb And Flow                     1:55
04. Sum                              4:48
05. Skins                            2:37
06. Unsung                           1:07
07. Anisina                          3:16
08. The Lost Art Of Conversation     1:42
09. On Noodle Street                 1:42
10. Night Light                      1:42
11. Allons-Y (1)                     1:57
12. Autumn '68                       1:35
13. Allons-Y (2)                     1:32
14. Talkin' Hawkin'                  3:29
15. Calling                          3:37
16. Eyes To Pearls                   1:51
17. Surfacing                        2:46
18. Louder Than Words                6:36

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Loss is a recurrent Pink Floyd theme. First there was the loss of original
leader Syd Barrett to mental illness. Then Roger Waters, architect of the bandÆs
greatest successes, exited after falling out with his colleagues. Now the
remnants of the Floyd, guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason, revive
the band for their first album since 1994Æs The Division Bell in order to mark
another loss.

The Endless River commemorates keyboardist Rick Wright, who died in 2008. Its 18
tracks, all instrumentals bar one song, are adapted from unused music from The
Division BellÆs recording sessions, with Gilmour and Mason laying down new parts
and Roxy MusicÆs Phil Manzanera helping to reshape the material.

It opens with an unidentified voice talking about the ôunspoken understandingö
in the band but also admitting that ôwe shout and argue and fight like everyone
elseö. What follows is a series of ambient instrumentals in the spirit of the
bandÆs pre-Wall work, the shifting moods capturing the volatile dynamics of the
bandÆs history.

Some are fragmentary, their origins as studio sweepings audible, but others
strike an authentically Floydian note, rising into full pomp-rock majesty or
drifting off into graceful reverie. (The working title for the album was The Big
Spliff.)

Wright is present posthumously, his keyboards going from grandiose chords to
jazzy fills. Meanwhile Gilmour is central to the action, his guitar-playing full
of emotional intelligence, its tones alternately inquisitive, mournful, fierce
and dreamlike, unfolding with a deep sense of space.

ôItÆs louder than words, this thing that we do,ö he sings in the only song, the
stately finale ôLouder Than Wordsö. The sentiment could be taken as an implied
rebuke to Roger Waters, the bandÆs erstwhile chief wordsmith, who fired Wright
as a full Floyd member in 1979.

But I sense something else û an act of relinquishment, the final utterance from
Pink Floyd in what Gilmour says will be their final album. How fitting that a
band so accustomed to loss should close their account with an engrossing elegy
to their own past.



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