On November 10th, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Nick Mason will release their first album together in 20 years with The Endless River. In anticipation, they’ve released the Gimour-sung “Louder Than Words” as a teaser track. Now, the band has unveiled one of the album’s several instrumentals with “Allons-y (1)”. Spotify users can listen in below.
Even at less than two minutes long, the track still exudes the kind of vast, otherworldly scope associated with Pink Floyd. Slightly jangly guitars lead the charge before a surge of celestial synths, wailing slide guitar, and under-stated percussion join in, a kind of pulsating blend of low-key blues, arena rock, and psych rock. If Cloud City were an actual destination, this would be the perfect soundtrack to make your approach (hopefully whilst piloting the Millennium Falcon).
Billed as a tribute to multi-instrumentalist Richard Wright, The Endless River utilizes unreleased lyrics and music written by Wright prior to his death in 2008. The album was recorded by Gilmour and Mason in November 2013 alongside Roxy Music guitarist and producer Phil Manzanera. Other contributors include theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (whose vocals are featured on the track “Talkin’ Hawkin'”) and UK-based electronic string quartet Escala. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Listen to three more audio teasers below.
The Endless River Tracklist:
01. Things Left Unsaid
02. It’s What We Do
03. Ebb And Flow
04. Sum
05. Skins
06. Unsung
07. Anisina
08. The Lost Art of Conversation
09. On Noodle Street
10. Night Light
11. Allons-y (1)
12. Autumn’68
13. Allons-y (2)
14. Talkin’ Hawkin’
15. Calling
16. Eyes To Pearls
17. Surfacing
18. Louder Than Words
