David Gilmour is set to release a new album titled ‘Luck And Strange’ later this year. It will be his first solo album in nine years, and in his words, it might be his best work since the classic ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon.’ Gilmour said in the new issue of Prog:
“It’s over 50 years now since ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon.’ My feeling is that this album is the best album I’ve made in all those years since 1973 when ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ came out.”
Gilmour also shared his plans once the album is released:
“Our plan is just to get this one out and run it and then do another one straight away. I will be working with all these people again. I’ve had this problem in the past, of wanting to throw myself in the studio with a few people and just kick stuff around, but not knowing who those people should be.”
What We Know About The Album So Far
The title track from the album includes keyboard parts by the late Pink Floyd co-founder Rick Wright, recorded back in 2007.
According to the ‘Luck and Strange’ press release, the track was recorded in a barn on Gilmour’s property. A new video clip shows Wright playing keyboards in that barn, though it’s not clear if the footage is from the exact recording used in ‘Luck and Strange.’
Gilmour explained:
“‘Luck and Strange’ is the title of a song. It comes from a jam that we did in 2007, while Rick Wright was still alive. [Then] I wrote choruses and bridges for it, and then [my wife and longtime lyricist] Polly [Samson] wrote these great words. From the first second you hear Rick playing his electric piano, you just know that there’s something absolutely individual about what he does that no one else does or could do.”
Luck and Strange is available for pre-order now in different formats. It has eight new original songs and a cover of The Montgolfier Brothers’ 1999 track ‘Between Two Points.’
Romany, Gilmour’s daughter, sings lead and plays harp on ‘Between Two Points.’ She also did harmony vocals on ‘The Piper’s Call.’ Gilmour’s son Charlie wrote the lyrics for the last track, ‘Scattered.’
You can hear ‘The Piper’s Call’ down below.