Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds LP - Excellent Vinyl 1972 - Worldwide Shipping
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Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds LP - Excellent Vinyl 1972 - Worldwide Shipping. Condition is used but barely.Dispatched with Royal Mail 2nd Class.
Part of the ongoing collection of a late vinyl buff I’m selling for the family, this album is in cracking condition; the cover at the bottom is 3/4 loose but can be glued and I’m leaving that to the buyer.
Obscured by Clouds is a rather fitting title for Pink Floyd's seventh studio album, released on June 2, 1972. The forward-thinking British quartet had been in a transitional phase for several years and albums.
When Syd Barrett fled the band in a schizophrenic, acid-induced haze back in April of 1968, (following their difficult sophomore album, A Saucerful of Secrets), the remaining four members were left to pick up the pieces.
After Saucerful, there had been smatterings of brilliance – including a few inspired moments of their mostly bloated orchestral-rock offering, Atom Heart Mother. Then came Meddle, their excellent and focused 1971 album – and arguably Pink Floyd's finest to date. David Gilmour fully grasped his role as co-leader on the latter project, writing several songs with Roger Waters, and refining his elegantly textural and muscular electric guitar playing on tracks like the gorgeously psychedelic "A Pillow of Winds" and the sweeping 23-minute epic "Echoes."
On Obscured, tracks like the simmering instrumental "Mudmen" – one of two tracks ever attributed to the duo of Gilmour/Wright, along with "Cluster One" from 1994's Division Bell – easily function as a sonic bridge between The Dark Side of the Moon. The quartet conjures hugely ethereal moods from Wright's rippling organs and VCS 3 synthesizer, Gilmour's aching slide guitar, Waters' murmuring bass, and Mason's simmering drum fills. Meanwhile, the gorgeous acoustic lullaby "Wots ... Uh, the Deal?" remains one of Gilmour's finest original tracks – and clearly a personal favorite of the guitarist's, judging by its inclusion on his 2007 live DVD Remember the Night.
There are awkward spots – most notably "The Gold It's in The," an oddly peppy track with an arena-rock-styled riff and a flat vocal hook. But in spite of the filler, Obscured by Clouds remains one of rock's most under-appreciated treasures — and perhaps the most underrated album in Pink Floyd's
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