The Endless River, Pink Floyds upcoming album and their first since The Division Bell in 1994, may be the last album in the legendary bands catalog, according to David Gilmour.
I suspect we have commandeered the best of what there is. I suspect this is it.”
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason have recently been interviewed on the upcoming release of the legendary groups allegedly final record, The Endless River, due out on November 10. The album, which is by and large a posthumous tribute to late keyboardist Richard Wright who passed away in 2008, is a continuous piece of music that picks up quite nicely where 1994s The Division Bell left off, as Gilmour points out:
There’s a sort of continuum from The Division Bell album to this, and the last phrase but one on The Division Bell is “the endless river”: “the endless river forever and ever” at the end of the song “High Hopes”.”
It seems fairly certain that the album will indeed be the last in Pink Floyds nearly fifty-year history, although it doesn’t seem as though Gilmour himself has fully convinced himself of that fact quite yet. In the radio interview for BBC6, which can be heard here, Gilmour lets slip a rather aloof comment that suggests that he’s not quite satisfied with the way Pink Floyd plans to end their storied career:
It’ll do.”
The albums release comes on the heels of Roger Waters announcing publicly on Facebook that he had nothing to do with The Endless River whatsoever. While the group has had very little to do with each other since the storied Live 8 reunion, it does seem little bittersweet that Gilmour, Mason, and Waters couldn’t reform in the studio one last time. There’s still a chance, but for now, The Endless River will be the bands swan song.
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