Sealed 2014 180gm 2LP Gatefold Original With Custom Hype Sticker On Shrink. Includes 16 Page Booklet With Unseen Photographs From 1993 Sessions. “Loss Is A Recurrent Pink Floyd Theme. First There Was The Loss Of Original Leader Syd Barrett To Mental Illness. Then Roger Waters, Architect Of The Band’s Greatest Successes, Exited After Falling Out With His Colleagues. Now The Remnants Of The Floyd, Guitarist David Gilmour And Drummer Nick Mason, Revive The Band For Their First Album Since 1994’s The Division Bell In Order To Mark Another Loss. The Endless River Commemorates Keyboardist Rick Wright, Who Died In 2008. Its 18 Tracks, All Instrumentals Bar One Song, Are Adapted From Unused Music From The Division Bell’s Recording Sessions, With Gilmour And Mason Laying Down New Parts And Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera Helping To Reshape The Material. It Opens With An Unidentified Voice Talking About The “Unspoken Understanding” In The Band But Also Admitting That “We Shout And Argue And Fight Like Everyone Else”. What Follows Is A Series Of Ambient Instrumentals In The Spirit Of The Band’s Pre-Wall Work, The Shifting Moods Capturing The Volatile Dynamics Of The Band’s History. Some Are Fragmentary, Their Origins As Studio Sweepings Audible, But Others Strike An Authentically Floydian Note, Rising Into Full Pomp-Rock Majesty Or Drifting Off Into Graceful Reverie.“ - Ludovic Hunter-Tilney