Legendary Pink Floyd guitarist/singer/songwriter David Gilmour’s website and socials all featured a cryptic image for a week or so leading people to anticipate news of a new album. Gilmour’s wife/collaborator Polly Samson had been posting pictures on social media of Gilmour and friends in the studio clearly in the works of new music. Now it has been officially announced that David Gilmour will be releasing Luck and Strange on September 6th and in the meantime has released the first single, “The Piper’s Call.””The Piper’s Call” is a fantastic song that musically has a strong David Crosby influence to it. This isn’t surprising since the two of them were best of friends and even worked with each other extensively on Gilmour’s 2006 release On An Island.
Gilmour recorded and co-produced the album, which follows 2015’s Rattle That Lock, over five months in Brighton, England, and London with producer Charlie Andrew. It contains eight new original songs and a cover of the Montgolfier Brothers’ song from 1999, “Between Two Points.”
The majority of the album’s lyrics are by Gilmour’s wife and longtime collaborator, author Polly Samson, who said in a statement that she appreciated Andrew wanting to know what the songs were about and relaying the messages to the musicians who played on the album.
“It’s written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant,” Samson said.
“We spent a load of time during and after lockdown talking about and thinking about those kind of things,” Gilmour said.
Gilmour said he found Andrew’s approach both startling and refreshing. “We invited Charlie to the house, so he came and listened to some demos and said things like, ‘Well, why does there have to be a guitar solo there?’ and ‘Do they all fade out? Can’t some of them just end?’” he said. “He has a wonderful lack of knowledge or respect for this past of mine. He’s very direct and not in any way overawed, and I love that. That is just so good for me because the last thing you want is people just deferring to you.”
The Gilmours’ son, Charlie, contributed to the lyrics of “Scattered,” and their daughter, Romany, plays harp and sings lead vocals on “Between Two Points.” Their son, Gabriel Gilmour, also contributes backing vocals. The family contributions on the album stemmed from livestreams the Gilmours made during Covid-19 lockdowns, which they billed as the Von Trapped Family.
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