David Gilmour speaks about his fifth solo album ‘Luck And Strange’, comparing it to his work on Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’.
The famous Pink Floyd guitarist told Prog Magazine, “It’s over 50 years now since ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’. My feeling is that this album is the best album I’ve made in all those years since 1973 when ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ came out.”
Gilmour originally joined the band in 1967 shortly before the departure of one of its founding members Syd Barrett. The Rock-And-Roll Hall of Famer released his first solo album in 1974.
Some unused songs from this album, such as the track ‘Comfortably Numb’, would end up on Pink Floyd’s record ‘The Wall’.
Gilmour would go on to release 3 more solo studio albums while simultaneously leading Pink Floyd after Roger Waters departure in 1985.
The iconic rock star told Prog that he plans to begin work on a follow-up to ‘Luck And Strange’ and hopes to reunite with many of the album’s collaborators.
“Our plan is just to get this one out and run it and then do another one straight away. I will be working with all these people again.”
‘Luck And Strange’ releases on the 6th of September and was recorded over the span of five months in both Brighton and London.
The track-list will see eight new songs as well as a reworking of the 1999 track ‘Between Two Points’ by The Montgolfier Brothers featuring Gilmour’s daughter Romany.
