Album · 2014
The Endless River
by Pink Floyd
The Endless River is a 2014 ambient album by Pink Floyd. It runs 43 tracks across 118 minutes on Columbia. Riffiter listeners rate it 3.1/5 from 5 ratings.
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- 5 ratings
- 70 /100
- 8 critics
- 43
- Tracks
- 118 min
- Runtime
- 125 bpm
- Tempo
- A minor
- Key
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- Record Collector5/5
- The Observer4/5
- Uncut3.5/5
- Rolling Stone3.5/5
- AllMusic3.5/5
- The Guardian3/5
- Pitchfork5.7/10
- NME5/10
- Metacriticaggregate58/100
- AnyDecentMusic?aggregate5.4/10
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The Endless River album cover
The The Endless River cover was designed by Ahmed Emad Eldin, Eddie Bander, Michael Rendall and Youth, photographed by Andy Earl, Harry Borden, Jill Furmanovsky and Simon Fowler, illustrated by StormStudios, and art-directed by Aubrey Powell, Hipgnosis and Stylorouge.
- Design
- Ahmed Emad Eldin, Eddie Bander, Michael Rendall, Youth
- Photography
- Andy Earl, Harry Borden, Jill Furmanovsky, Simon Fowler
- Illustration
- StormStudios
- Art direction
- Aubrey Powell, Hipgnosis, Stylorouge
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43 tracks · 118 min
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The Endless River has as its starting point the music that came from the 1993 Division Bell sessions, when David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason played freely together at Britannia Row and Astoria studios. This was the first time they had done so since the ‘Wish You Were Here’ sessions in the seventies. Those sessions resulted in The Division Bell, the band’s last studio album. In 2013 David Gilmour and Nick Mason revisited the music from those sessions and decided that the tracks should be made available as part of the Pink Floyd repertoire. It would be the last time the three of them would be heard together. The band have spent the last year recording and upgrading the music, using the advantages of modern studio technology to create The Endless River. 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 novelist Polly Samson), arranged across four sides and produced by David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Youth and Andy Jackson.
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‘Louder Than Words’, the new song by Pink Floyd, had its first radio play on BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans show (9 October). ‘Louder Than Words’ is performed by Pink Floyd. Taken from David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason's 1993 Division Bell sessions it has new lyrics by writer and Division Bell lyricist Polly Samson. David Gilmour said: "The music for Louder Than Words is from those final sessions, the three of us playing together on the houseboat Astoria with Rick's idiosyncratic keyboards reminding me now that you don't know what you've got until it's gone. At the start of the album I asked Polly to write the lyrics. She felt that what I played her didn't need words, that hearing us play was more interesting. In the end she wrote just this one, which expresses, beautifully I think, the way the three of us, me, Nick and Rick have something when we play together, that has a magic that is louder than words". Release date: 10 November 2014 Track list: Things Left Unsaid It's What We Do Ebb and Flow Sum Skins Unsung Anisina The Lost Art of Conversation On Noodle Street Night Light Allons-y (1) Autumn '68 Allons-y (2) Talkin' Hawkin' Calling Eyes to Pearls Surfacing Louder Than Words
In brief
- Is The Endless River good?
- Riffiter listeners rate The Endless River 3.1/5 from 5 ratings.
- When was The Endless River released?
- The Endless River was released in 2014 on Columbia.
- How many tracks are on The Endless River?
- The Endless River has 43 tracks, with a runtime of 118 minutes.
- What genre is The Endless River?
- The Endless River is catalogued under Ambient, Art Rock, Rock.
- What BPM is The Endless River?
- The Endless River runs at a median tempo of 125 BPM across its tracks, most often in A minor, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to The Endless River?
- Listeners of The Endless River also rate Live at Pompeii by David Gilmour, Is This the Life We Really Want? by Roger Waters, In Rainbows by Radiohead.
The Endless River at a glance
- Labels
- Columbia Records, Parlophone, Warner Records Inc.
- Recorded at
- Royal Albert Hall, Astoria
- Produced by
- David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Youth
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