Pink Floyd To Release First New Album in 20 Years This Fall

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 11:17 pm

Looking forward for this...

Pink Floyd To Release First New Album in 20 Years This Fall

Rolling Stone
By Miriam Coleman
7 hours ago

Pink Floyd is about to return with their first album in 20 years. Polly Samson, the wife of singer-guitarist David Gilmour, surprised fans on Saturday when she casually announced over Twitter that the band has a new record in the works and it's coming out this fall. A representative for David Gilmour confirmed the release of the album to Rolling Stone.

"Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River,'" Samson wrote. "Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful." (Keyboardist and founding member Wright died of cancer in 2008 at the age of 65.)

The band had just celebrated the 20th anniversary of 1994's The Division Bell with an extravagant reissue of the album on July 1st. The new material appears to be connected to unreleased recordings made during the Division Bell sessions.

Durga McBroom-Hudson, a singer who toured with Pink Floyd in the 1980s and 1990s and is apparently involved in the new project, offered more details on The Endless River through her Facebook page. "The recording did start during The Division Bell sessions (and yes, it was the side project originally titled 'The Big Spliff' that Nick Mason spoke about)," she explained. "Which is why there are Richard Wright tracks on it. But David and Nick have gone in and done a lot more since then. It was originally to be a completely instrumental recording, but I came in last December and sang on a few tracks. David then expanded on my backing vocals and has done a lead on at least one of them. That's the song you see being worked on in the photo." She went on to emphasize that the new album will consist entirely of unreleased songs.

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Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 2:39 pm

Who Is going to be the engineer? This single person can make or break the album.

Err · Post by **Err** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:44 pm

I hope they get someone like Alan Parsons or Steve Hoffman.

I hope this is as good as The Division Bell and sounds like Pink Floyd rather than a Gilmore solo album.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 6:30 pm

Err wrote:I hope they get someone like Alan Parsons or Steve Hoffman.

I hope this is as good as The Division Bell and sounds like Pink Floyd rather than a Gilmore solo album.

I agree. Really don't like Gilmore solo stuff.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 1:57 am

I should hope that whatever engineer they get knows the sound that they are going after. That said, yeah, I'll be upset if it sounds like a solo thing.