One hour of instrumental music, with a single song as a final chord: The new Pink Floyd album “The Endless River” has no suspense – the remainder of the band delivers the obituary itself.

And then does it once. Just now was heard murmuring and diffuse Geflirre. And suddenly rolls with short zoom start something, can flutter the legs and heart valves. The delicate sound of thunder. It is the same Gong, in the film “Live at Pompeii” in 1972 played a major role, even deeper down at the computer and reinforced by a whole bunch of other noises. The sound of a train openwork barrier or perhaps even the blast of a nuclear bomb.

If it’s all about the money would go – Pink Floyd could afford. The noise is not a bad entry in the final album by a group that has consistently brought in the almost 50 years of existence, the pure sound in their music, as if it were a separate instrument – of sizzling fried eggs in “Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast” on the strangely lost tuning at the beginning of “Wish You Were Here” to the bell at the end of “high Hopes”.

That “The Endless River” is named after a line of text from this 20 years old song, is programmatically and not the only nod to our own history. “The Endless River” has an estimated one Quadrupillion preorders already broken all records. It still crowing of a rooster or other for a band whose best times have elapsed since either 46 or 30 years – depending on whether the departure of Syd Barrett or Roger Waters is more weeping. Barrett was something like the first firing step that had to be jettisoned during ascent. Waters was the gyrocompass, which then held the rocket on course and resulted in its orbit. Without him, it now floats up there. Burned out and useless, but sparkling.

Pink Floyd New album “The Endless River”:For ambient to dramatic for drama to ambient

Dominated “The Endless River” by Pink Floyd David Gilmour, who administered the last size during his reign, cap and casually replaced it with bombast. “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” (1987) was at least something like the icing on the eighties, the cumbersome “The Division Bell” (1994) took at least the later Coldplay anticipated. Only could a “least” never meet. Not for Pink Floyd, where sometimes all means dissolved in success, as they were not there.

Now you can hear the work. Gilmour and Mason, the two remaining members of the band have conjured up mainly from the remains of the “Division Bell” sessions, kitchen waste of the late Rick Wright, something like an obituary for yourself. The form is a gamble. One hour of instrumental music? With a single song as a keystone? Gab’s since Mike Oldfield’s “Ommadawn” anymore. The pieces blend into each other without something like stringency or a tension would be felt. For Ambient it is too dramatic to ambient for drama. Just sketches, luxurious nachaquarelliert. Classicist miniatures with Pink Floyd flavor, how ever can make a joke of it, abzuhorchen the individual title to their proud role models.

“It’s what We Do” sounds with his stationary sounds like a lost “Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part X”. Since the stadium sounds guitar from “Sorrow”, where the Rototom of “Time”. And is not that the metallic thrust Bern from “Welcome to the Machine”? Omnipresent Blue scheme of “Us and Them”, trace elements of “One of my Turns” is detectable. And the legendary ostinato from “Run like Hell” is “all over the place”.

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