Pink Floyd achieve first No1 album in 19 years with The Endless River
Legendary prog-rockers Pink Floyd have gone straight to the top of the Official Albums Chart with their new record, The Endless River. It is their 15th studio album and their first chart-topper since Pulse in 1995.
The Endless River is based on unreleased material from the band’s sessions for 1994 album, The Division Bell. It is said by singer and guitarist, David Gilmour, to be a tribute to Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright, who died in 2008. Wright appears on the record posthumously.
Culled from some 20 hours of Division Bell outtakes, it is mostly an instrumental album featuring just one “song” among its 18 tracks.
It has received mixed notices from music critics. In her three-star Telegraph review, Helen Brown claimed that despite being “short on catchy tunes, it’s still an effective 53-minute trip.”
Source: The Telegraph
