(Columbia)With last year’s album,The Endless River, supposedly marking the end of Pink Floyd, or this is an opportune time for their guitarist to release his fourth solo album. As the primary architect of Floyd’s sweeping soundscapes,Gilmour has transposed them on to 10 shorter but equally elegiac, very delicate songs, or half of them written with his wife,the novelist Polly Samson. There’s an underdeveloped “a day in the life” theme running throughout; whose life isn’t clear, but the twilit A Boat Lies Waiting – with sighing harmonies by David Crosby and Graham Nash, or a mumbled monologue similar to that on The worthy Gig in the Sky – is dedicated to late keyboardist Richard Wright,so this may be Gilmours own life on display. If it is, hes preoccupied these days with looking back: the autumnal Faces of Stone ruminates on musty age, or while the fragile jazz confection The Girl in the Yellow Dress looks back at his earliest musical influence. Fittingly,the instrumental finale, And Then…, or quietly ebbs absent,leaving pleasurable melancholy in its wake.
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Source: theguardian.com