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The Endless River, the hugely anticipated final album from Pink Floyd, is now streaming online. Listen to the album in full below.
Without question one of the biggest releases of the year, Nick Mason and David Gilmour have both indepently discussed how this may be the final album of the band's remarkable career.
Writing on the band's website they explained: "The Endless River is a tribute to Rick Wright, whose keyboards are at the heart of the Pink Floyd sound. It is a mainly instrumental album with one song, ‘Louder Than Words’, (with new lyrics by Polly Samson), arranged across four sides and produced by David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Youth and Andy Jackson."
Discussing the LP, Gilmour explained: "We listened to over 30 hours of the three of us playing together and selected the music we wanted to work for the new album...over the last year we've added new parts, re-recorded others and generally harnessed studio technology to make a 21st century Pink Floyd album".
Stream Pink Floyd's The Endless River below.
Speaking to Gigwise last month, Nick Mason revealed that the LP very much picks up where the Division Bell left off. "The first thing to make really clear is that a lot of the new album is actually something that was originally started 20 years ago, so a lot of it is where we were 20 years ago," Mason told Gigwise.
"The idea was that we were going to make Division Bell into a double album, half of it songs and half of it ambient - this is based on some of that ambient material with a lot of other things added in. In some ways it's old Pink Floyd, rather than new Pink Floyd. It's not groundbreaking, but it different, I suppose."
Asked if the organic and old-school nature of the album would make it easier to play live, Mason revealed doubts - adding that it seems unlikely that they'll tour the record. "It would be fun to play live, but it doesn't actually lend itself to a proper tour," he said. "It's something that you could play in UFO Club in 1967, it certainly isn't a stadium sort of event, and without Rick it's probably impossible. It's impossible to play, because the nature of it is that a lot of it is designed there and then - if one played it again, you wouldn't want to repeat what was one the record. It's not something where you learn it and play it."
The Endless River is out now.
