Pink Floyd – The Endless River

David Gilmour and Richard Wright had a once-in-a-millennium musical connection. They could express pure emotion through their playing and had an otherworldy sense of each other. This album is a tribute to Richard after his passing, but really it's a tribute to that connection between the keyboardist and guitarist. They got together in the studio, including Gilmour's houseboat studio, and improvised together for a long stretch to craft material for the Division Bell, but there were a lot more amazing recordings from those sessions than what were developed for The Division Bell. This album starts with those recordings and captures the purity of the ethereal connection between the two musicians. It's an instrumental album except for one track, and so many fans refer to it as Pink Floyd's ambient album, suitable only for background music, but make no mistake, this is the purest form of Pink Floyd jamming to ever be released. While I would agree that Roger Waters' ability to conceptualize and build big, timeless, artistic statements was critical to the most legendary stretch of recorded rock albums in history, the other half of the story was the feeling brought to the music by David and Richard. This album lets this important part of what made Pink Floyd great, shine. And shine it does. You only need to sit down, open your ears, and give it the attention it deserves.

Good pressing with nary a pop or crack, good sound quality. Not great or perfect due to an obvious wave on LP #1. Beautiful and high quality artwork, booklet.

Wow...so many dismissals of this album? Sounds like Pink Floyd to me, minus the vocals. I know a lot of folks always want vocals and lyrics, but I am not one of them, hence this album is a very pleasant listen for me.

The side C sounds uncentered. Especially closer to the center of the record. I can hear like the long notes pitch flutters, and also see how the cartridge is moving left and right. Very weird, as I don’t hear/see the same effect on the side D - the other side of the record.
Music-wise: one of my favorite their albums, the music is very enjoyable, and I bought this album intentionally for its music.

The album sounds like "four millionaires gathered on a million dollar studio" and made the "most safe and boring record". They just couldn't take any chances and risk their fame? They are thinking more about achieving the perfect sounds than any composition. The sound is nice on this album - yes - but the essence is just boring. I have no need or want to listen to it more than once. It was so safe. It's basically one composition with endless variation. But if you like this type of background / film soundtrack music then it might be great for you. I almost fell asleep. 3/5

The quality of the pressing leaves much to be desired but the album is masterpiece in my opinion.

pressing 9,9/10, music 0,1/10 all in all this is just average :-)

Don’t see it as a full-blown Pink Floyd album, but see it as the outro of Pink Floyd, and a tribute to Richard Wright. Then it makes sense, provokes nostalgia with the plethora of musical references, and actually has its place.

This album contains really precious tracks, it’s neither a rip-off nor needless. But … the vinyl pressing is one of the worst things I ever saw. I bought that once, exchanged it, later exchanged the exchanged – futile; I’ll have to stick with these warped platters. The needle makes it, but that shurely was not the point. It’s embarrassing that these vinyls are not exchanged officially.

This would have been better if EITHER the tracks were spread across the WHOLE of each side rather than just half of it OR if they had made this a SINGLE LP. Seems to me they did not know what to do with it!

Also, at least half of these tracks sound 'unfinished' to me.