This year marks the 20th anniversary of
Pink Floyd’s fourteenth and final album,
Division Bell. Beyond a
deluxe reissue,
David Gilmour apparently plans to mark the occasion with a brand new LP entitled
The Endless River, which will be released in October.
The news was revealed by Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson, on
Twitter. Samson added that the album is based on 1994 sessions with Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright.
Singer Durga McBroom-Hudson, who toured with Pink Floyd throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, revealed further details on her
Facebook page. “The recording did start during
The Division Bell sessions (and yes, it was the side project originally titled ‘The Big Spliff’ that [Pink Floyd drummer] Nick Mason spoke about),” she explained. “Which is why there are Richard Wright tracks on it. But David and Nick have gone in and done a lot more since then. It was originally to be a completely instrumental recording, but I came in last December and sang on a few tracks. David then expanded on my backing vocals and has done a lead on at least one of them. That’s the song you see being worked on in the photo.” She also added that the album consists entirely of “unreleased songs.”
It’s unclear whether Pink Floyd’s other principal member,
Roger Waters, contributed to the album. He last appeared on the band’s 1983 record,
The Final Cut, before departing to focus entirely on his solo career.
Update: According to UK newspaper The Sun, Waters is not involved in the project. Also, the band has no plans to tour in support of the release.
Last fall, it was
revealed that Gilmour was working on a new solo album, his first since 2006. At the moment, it’s also unclear how plans for the new Pink Floyd album will impact this release.
