Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds (1972) [LP Remastered 2016]
Artist: Pink Floyd
Title: Obscured by Clouds
Year Of Release: 2016 [1972]
Label: Pink Floyd Records [PFRLP7]
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock, Soundtrack
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks,scans) [96kHz/24bit/Vinyl]
Total Time: 40:38
Total Size: 109 mb / 891 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: Obscured by Clouds
Year Of Release: 2016 [1972]
Label: Pink Floyd Records [PFRLP7]
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock, Soundtrack
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks,scans) [96kHz/24bit/Vinyl]
Total Time: 40:38
Total Size: 109 mb / 891 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Obscured by Clouds is the soundtrack to the Barbet Schroeder film La Vallée, and it plays that way. Of course, it's possible to make the argument that Pink Floyd's music of the early '70s usually played as mood music, similar to film music, but it had structure and a progression. Here, the instrumentals float pleasantly, filled with interesting textures, yet they never seem to have much of a purpose. Often, they seem quite tied to their time, either in their spaciness or in the pastoral folkiness, two qualities that are better brought out on the full-fledged songs interspersed throughout the record. Typified by "Burning Bridges" and "Wot's...uh the Deal," these songs explore some of the same musical ground as those on Atom Heart Mother and Meddle, yet they are more concise and have a stronger structure. But the real noteworthy numbers are the surprisingly heavy blues-rocker "The Gold It's in The...," which, as good as it is, is trumped by the stately, ominous "Childhood's End" and the jaunty pop tune "Free Four," two songs whose obsessions with life, death, and the past clearly point toward Dark Side of the Moon. ("Childhood's End" also suggests Dark Side in its tone and arrangement.) As startlingly advanced as these last two songs are, they're not enough to push the rest of Obscured by Clouds past seeming just like a soundtrack, yet these tunes, blended with the sensibility of Meddle, suggest what Pink Floyd was about to develop into.
TRACKLIST:
Music From La Vallée
A1 Obscured By Clouds
A2 When You're In
A3 Burning Bridges
A4 The Gold It's In The...
A5 Wot's... Uh The Deal
A6 Mudmen
B1 Childhood's End
B2 Free Four
B3 Stay
B4 Absolutely Curtains