Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Endless River is endless musical entertainment.

A wonderful tribute to Rick Wright, glad they unshelved these archives

I really enjoyed the album. Really nice to daydream and zone out to.

wasn't impressed with this at all. David should retire, like 30 years ago.

This material isn't amazing in the way their run from '71-'79 was or is even comparable to A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, it sounds more like a great instrumental tribute to Rick Wright. The base of it is just material left over from The Division Bell with it being reworked decades later and having listened to it all the way through a few times now I absolutely love it. Having accomplished what they have they obviously didn't need to release this, but I'm so glad they did.

THE ENDLESS RIVER. This is and will be the final Pink Floyd album. It is based on music recorded by Richard while they were making Division Bell. David and Nick added much material to it, thus turning it into a real group project. (Nick gets his first writing credit since Dark Side.) Out of the 18 songs (21 on the expanded version), there is only one that is not an instrumental. (Two if you count Stephen Hawking's narration on one instrumental.# Louder Than Words was written by David's wife, and is sung by him. The song deals with the alienation among friends. It is a good song. The music can't be described as rock music. It is astral, new age music. #My wife, who is not a Pink Floyd fan, described this as planetarium music.) I generally prefer songs over instrumentals; so initially I liked only Louder Than Words and the last song on the extended version, Nervana. However, on further listening the album has grown on me. It is somewhat dominated by Richard. This album is driven by Richard as it was based on his recordings, mostly from 1994 but some dating back to the 1960s. The instrumentals are at least good, with some of the better ones harking back to Echoes and Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Many of the songs have small cues to previous albums, which is appropriate for the final album. Between the album being almost entirely instrumentals and the good lyrics on the one song, Roger is not missed. It's a very pleasant sounding album, but it's not that memorable. The only great song is Nervana. Nervana is the only rock oriented instrumental, harkening back to Interstellar Overdrive from the very first Pink Floyd album. Unfortunately Nervana is only available on the extended version, which comes with a DVD or Blu-Ray and costs almost twice as much. The other two songs on the extended version are completely forgettable, which makes the one great song very expensive. On the whole Pink Floyd are going out neither on a high note nor a low note.

Allow me to preface by saying I am a HUGE Pink Floyd fan, and own their entire discography on vinyl and CD. While this is enjoyable, it is essentially a David Gilmour solo album, with contribution from former PF members, excluding Roger Waters of course. Aside from Gilmour's signature style of guitar playing, there is nothing otherwise distinctly Floyd about it. It is a great send-off to Richard Wright, though. Guarded recommendations.

I love Pink Floyd, this album is great! Highly recommended!