Pink Floyd coming back to life

Rock band to release comeback album in November after a 20-year hiatus

LONDON: Acclaimed rock band Pink Floyd has announced their first studio album in 20 years, which is set to be released this November. Titled The Endless River, the album is a tribute to Rick Wright, the band’s keyboardist who died in 2008, says the band’s website.

The album, which is an instrumental offering with just one song, comprises music that Wright, guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason put together in 1993, leading to the 1994 release of their studio album The Division Bell. “The band has spent the last year recording and upgrading the music, using the advantages of modern studio technology to create The Endless River,” the website states.

“Wright’s keyboards are at the heart of the Pink Floyd sound,” the band said. Epitomised by 1970-releases such as Wish You Were Here and The Wall, the band’s style was cutting-edge for its era, mixing soft and heavy rock with philosophical lyrics and pioneering electronic sounds.

Pink Floyd is also is known for its revolutionary light shows and ethereal album artwork. The Endless River’s cover continues the latter tradition, featuring a man standing with his back to the viewer, rowing an old boat across the clouds towards an eternal background.

Gilmour and Mason are the two remaining members of the band still working under the Pink Floyd name. Original members Roger Waters left in the 1980s for a solo career, while Syd Barrett left the group in 1968 due to drug-induced mental illness. He passed away in 2006. 

Published in The Express Tribune, September 26^th, 2014.

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