The Endless River is (Likely) the End of Pink Floyd
Proof of Purchase. A handsome package. Pink Floyd is my all-time favorite rock band. I have blogged about, among other Floydian things, their final set in 2005 and about their final bow in 2011. Now comes their final studio album (as Pink Floyd). The Endless River is almost 55 minutes of mostly wordless musical conversations, jam sessions taken from many hours of recordings unused in the band's excellent 1994 record The Division Bell . David Gilmour and Nick Mason revisited this material which heavily features the keyboard work of Rick Wright who died in 2008. Roger Waters , the driving force, lyricist, and visionary behind the band's best works, quit in 1985. Earlier this year the two last men standing in Pink Floyd went back into the studio, sifted through the unused recordings, picking the best parts of what were at the time (in late-1993) hours of improvised musical doodles created while laying down more established songs for The Division Bell .