Although the band plays it safer than usual lyrically and structurally, it's relieving to see that they were able to keep their core sound throughout the album's majority. Most of the production is also quite nice, but there are a couple of songs where the production is unnecessarily messy. However, I much prefer this over More as an album due to more consistent songwriting themes and a better overall flow across the album. Like More, this is a project in which I imagine the band struggled to have the creative control they're used to by the nature of it being a soundtrack. If The Wall wasn't divisive enough, I present the real red-headed step-child of Pink Floyd's golden age: Obscured by Clouds. Also, I thought the production was a little less balanced this time around where some instruments were much cleaner than others, leading to awkward clashes in sound quality. was more balanced in lyrical and compositional prowess, this effort essentially lets the keyboards take over, which was a bit disappointing in my view. However, I found that ambition to heavily sacrifice lyrical power with not a lot of return. This isn't bad by any stretch, but it's unfortunately an omen of the rather mediocre post-70's Pink Floyd material.Дespite the previous album's high creativity, this sophomore effort seems even more ambitious with its compositions. The album's sentiment is admirable and I like the symphonic, sometimes jazzy touches on a few of the tracks, but I can't help but feel that this is Waters' attempt to recapture the glory of The Wall or just make a The Wall B-Sides project under Pink Floyd's name. It's not an essential Pink Floyd record by any means, but they definitely could've had a worse waning in the 80's.Д®ven after Roger Waters was given the songwriting focus on The Wall, The Final Cut shows his work when given the complete, no-holds-barred reigns. However, I vibe with the album's general sound pretty hard and the top-notch production emphasizes the synergy between the synths and guitars to a T. Sure, the songwriting's wishy-washy and perhaps a lot of Pink Floyd's recognizable sound is almost completely stripped away in favor of the 80's pop sound that David Gilmour inspired with the Kate Bush collaborations. Unfortunately for Gilmour, this went even more poorly received than The Final Cut, but I honestly see this as one of Pink Floyd's most over-hated releases. On the flipside of Roger Waters' 'solo' effort, David Gilmour tries to one-up Rogers by making his own 'solo' effort under the Pink Floyd name. This isn't a necessarily bad record and the extra instrumentation on some tracks do leave some greatly unique impressions, but too much of the album sounds like a clashing mess of ideas that comes across as sluggish and somewhat tired. If I had to describe it, it's like taking the ideas from Pink Floyd's three decades worth of discography and forcefully cramming them all into one album. I was in a similar avenue after seeing relatively positive reviews for this thing, but I feel like this album fell quite short of those remarks. Waters and Gilmour temporarily settling their differences and making their first tag-team project since The Wall (15 years prior) must have had fans ecstatic. I couldn't imagine the hype around this when it was released. This honestly sounds more like a debut effort than Pink Floyd's actual debut. Both the blues-inspired tracks and the psychedelic-oriented pieces can become filler nothing is safe. The summary of this is as follows: some of it is pretty great, some of it is okay, and a good bit of it is just filler. Maybe in the context of the film would this project be better, but it's really disjointed on its own. If this is Pink Floyd's last album, it's undeniably a disappointing note to go out on, but this will never taint the rest of their more timeless material. I get that this is perhaps a more cinematic brand of their psychedelic sound from decades ago, but it sounds so dated from the time it came out and its songwriting provides hardly anything of interest. It took nearly 50 years and 15 LPs to finally come across with their first truly poor record in The Endless River, a meandering, long-winded experience that really should've stayed in the drafts. This allowed the band long-lasting and frankly stunning consistency. There are many reasons why Pink Floyd are one of my all-time favorite acts, but one of the most important of those reasons is that no matter the era or no matter the stylistic direction at that time, they were always able to make that new direction work and give it significance in their discography.

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