New Pink Floyd - The Endless River

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Brain Damage wrote: New Pink Floyd album, The Endless River, in October
Written by Matt
Saturday, 05 July 2014

Tweeted on Polly Samson's Twitter feed is the rather unexpected but incredibly welcome news of a new Pink Floyd album. She revealed that it is called "The Endless River" and is based on sessions recorded in 1994 - which were for The Division Bell.

She also notes that it "is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful". The singer Durga McBroom-Hudson also expands on this, by revealing the recent picture of David Gilmour in the studio with her (Durga), along with Sarah Brown and Louise Clare Marshall was not in actual fact from the recording sessions of David's new work, but from the sessions working on completing The Endless River.

There were a number of comments from people concerning the lack of any outtakes in The Division Bell 20th anniversary boxset (particularly as the existence of some instrumental recordings - commonly known as The Big Spliff - has been known for many years and has moved into the stuff of legend and the odd dodgy download). Clearly, it seems, plans had been afoot for a standalone release for some time, which should please those who are only after these recordings so they don't have to buy a full box set just for this CD. Needless to say, this should prove incredibly popular and we expect demand to be very high.
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Re: New Pink Floyd - The Endless River

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So these are in essence Division Bell b-sides? The first Floyd I ever owned was A Momentary Lapse of Reason, which I loved upon release. Then I went back and discovered what Floyd really sounded like, and never bothered with Division Bell. I'm sure it will sell huge though.
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Only one song with Gilmour singing main vocals, three others with him singing backing vocals. We also know their backup singers recorded vocals for at least one song. And then Stephen Hawking. :) So there is more than one song with vocals. But the main Gilmour one, "Louder Than Words" was posted online yesterday but pulled quickly.
Here's a pretty good BBC interview with Gilmour and Mason about the album, including answering questions about Waters and the future of Pink Floyd.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288yhn

And the EPK:

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