So, there are interesting moments scattered throughout the record, and the work that initially seems so impenetrable winds up being Atom Heart Mother’s strongest moment. “Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast,” the 12-minute opus that ends the album, does the same thing, floating for several minutes before ending on a drawn-out jam that finally gets the piece moving. Of these, Waters begins developing the voice that made him the group’s lead songwriter during their classic era with “If,” while Wright has an appealingly mannered, very English psychedelic fantasia on “Summer 68,” and Gilmour’s “Fat Old Sun” meanders quietly before ending with a guitar workout that leaves no impression. Then, on the second side, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Rick Wright have a song apiece, winding up with the group composition “Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast” wrapping it up. Still, it may be an acquired taste even for fans, especially since it kicks off with a side-long, 23-minute extended orchestral piece that may not seem to head anywhere, but is often intriguing, more in what it suggests than what it achieves. If anything, this is the most impenetrable album Pink Floyd released while on Harvest, which also makes it one of the most interesting of the era.
Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother (1970/2021)įLAC (tracks) 24bit/192kHz | Time – 00:52:02 minutes | 2,04 GB | Genre: RockĪppearing after the sprawling, unfocused double-album set Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother may boast more focus, even a concept, yet that doesn’t mean it’s more accessible. (“Childhood’s End” also suggests Dark Side in its tone and arrangement.) As startlingly advanced as these last two songs are, they’re not enough to push the rest of Obscured by Clouds past seeming just like a soundtrack, yet these tunes, blended with the sensibility of Meddle, suggest what Pink Floyd was about to develop into. But the real noteworthy numbers are the surprisingly heavy blues-rocker “The Gold It’s in The…,” which, as good as it is, is trumped by the stately, ominous “Childhood’s End” and the jaunty pop tune “Free Four,” two songs whose obsessions with life, death, and the past clearly point toward Dark Side of the Moon. Typified by “Burning Bridges” and “Wot’s…uh the Deal,” these songs explore some of the same musical ground as those on Atom Heart Mother and Meddle, yet they are more concise and have a stronger structure. Often, they seem quite tied to their time, either in their spaciness or in the pastoral folkiness, two qualities that are better brought out on the full-fledged songs interspersed throughout the record. Here, the instrumentals float pleasantly, filled with interesting textures, yet they never seem to have much of a purpose. Of course, it’s possible to make the argument that Pink Floyd’s music of the early ’70s usually played as mood music, similar to film music, but it had structure and a progression. Obscured by Clouds is the soundtrack to the Barbet Schroeder film La Vallée, and it plays that way. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) +858 MB+NįLAC (tracks) 24bit/96kHz | Time – 00:42:48 minutes | 858 MB | Genre: Rock
Pink Floyd may have better albums than Dark Side of the Moon, but no other record defines them quite as well as this one. It’s dense with detail, but leisurely paced, creating its own dark, haunting world. But what gives the album true power is the subtly textured music, which evolves from ponderous, neo-psychedelic art rock to jazz fusion and blues-rock before turning back to psychedelia.
Roger Waters wrote a series of songs about mundane, everyday details which aren’t that impressive by themselves, but when given the sonic backdrop of Floyd’s slow, atmospheric soundscapes and carefully placed sound effects, they achieve an emotional resonance. The primary revelation of Dark Side of the Moon is what a little focus does for the band.
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pink Floyd Recordsīy condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental sections, Pink Floyd inadvertently designed their commercial breakthrough with Dark Side of the Moon.
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon (2011 Remastered Version) (1973/2021)įLAC (tracks) 24bit/96kHz | Time – 00:42:48 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Rock