NORWAY ROCK MAGAZINE
Not escaping his Floyd past, but paying tribute to it, the record still contains a freshness, thanks in part to Charlie Andrew, whose production work with Alt-J Gilmour was impressed with. It’s not Gilmour’s best work since ‘A Dark Side of the Moon’, as he claims, but it’s still a fine album. The lyrics might be looking at the past, but the music is looking to Gilmour’s future.
Den gang griser virkelig kunne fly – Pink Floyds artistiske velmaktsdager avstedkom under de progressive 70-årene – ble albumformatet betraktet langt mer gravitetisk enn i dag. Bandet sikret seg tidlig full kunstnerisk kontroll; en klausul som materialiserte seg i påkostete plateomslag, null budsjettrammer for bruk av studio og forakt for singelutgivelser.