Pink Floyd's New Album - Surprisingly Good!

I count Pink Floyd as my favorite band.  When it was announced that they would be releasing their first studio album in 20 years, which was based off of material recorded for "The Division Bell" album, I was skeptical.  To be honest, I figured it would be the trash from a very 'meh' album's outtakes.

Instead, The Endless River offers up a nice overture of the Floyd catalog.  It starts out sounding like Wish You Were Here, invokes some of the Wall and the Final Cut, moves back to Dark Side of the Moon with some Meddle and even a little bit of Saucerful of Secrets type music thrown in.  The ending is more recent (post Waters) Floyd, but it works.  

Very happy to say that after 4 listens, I'm really digging this album.  The one vocal track isn't all that great, but Gilmour's voice does sound older which gives it a bit of a different feel from when we heard him last on Division Bell.  One of the bonus tracks (and I'm horrible with track names, especially when most are instrumental) Nervana I believe, is quite rocking for a Floyd diddy, kind of reminded me of the Nile Song.  

I really just expected this to be a one listen and done type album.  Something I would buy out of "obligation" to my favorite band.  In the back of my mind, I had no faith this album would deliver the goods.  Happy to say I was wrong.  

added bonus - it makes for a nice backdrop to running Guardian Rifts in Diablo 3!  A sort of beauty amongst chaos vibe.