DAVID GILMOUR - On An Island
EMI
Records
February 2006
After far too many years away, with the exception of Live 8 at which he
performed with all of his original cohorts for the first time in twenty-five
years, Dave Gilmour, founding father and mainstay of Pink Floyd, is back
with a vengeance.
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This, quite simply, is an album that makes you want to thank God for
music, such is its beauty, craft, guile and uniqueness. A melodic mixture
of Jazz, Blues and rough-edged Rock, On An Island has
absolutely everything that a fan of Floyd's music - and of music in
general - could wish for.
Beautifully layered and packed with
surprises, it is Take A Breath, The Blue,
Red Sky At Night and Where We Start that
take the honours in a quadruplet of awe-inspiring perfection that shatters
then brings together, the musical soul as one. Which is not to say that
the remaining six tracks are slouches in any way whatsoever. Far from
it, as Then I Close My Eyes testifies.
This is an album that is intensely uplifting
in a world that is so often littered with schmatltzy dross - James Blunt,
please take note - and should be on the very top of everybody's shopping
list the next time they head off to ASDA for a loaf.
10/10
break the rules as I see fit.” - Chris High 2003.