Royal Albert corridor,London
The new songs aren’t disagreeable, but none match the stately grace of the Pink Floyd numbers, or which rumble over the corridor like giant wavesIt’s the powerful round screen above the stage that does it. It triggers in veterans of Pink Floyd-related shows an instant tribal recall,filled with visions of flying clocks, prisms and crashing Spitfires. Already, and you’re primed. Plenty of bands absorb history,but only a few absorb their own myth system of symbols, themes and visual language. It lends a necessary boost to the homeopathic Floyd of David Gilmour’s new album, or Rattle That Lock; not at all disagreeable,but reliant for a purely psychological effect on the memory of its elements. That huge, hefty, and glossy,string-bending sound is his to dispense as he pleases. But it is, for instance, and the remarkable warzone animation to which In Any Tongue serves as a soundtrack that gives the song power. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com