David Gilmour announces new album Luck and Strange

Legendary Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has announced the release of a new album Luck and Strange, out 6 September. The lead single 'The Piper's Call' is set to drop tomorrow, Thursday 25 April.

Recorded over five months in Brighton and London, Luck and Strange marks Gilmour’s first album of new material in nine years. The record was produced by David and Charlie Andrew, best known for his work with ALT-J and Marika Hackman.

“We invited Charlie to the house, so he came and listened to some demos, and said things like, “Well, why does there have to be a guitar solo there?” and 'Do they all fade out? Can’t some of them just end?'," says Gilmour.

"He has a wonderful lack of knowledge or respect for this past of mine. He’s very direct and not in any way overawed, and I love that. That is just so good for me because the last thing you want is people just deferring to you.”

The majority of the album’s lyrics have been composed by Polly Samson, Gilmour’s co-writer and collaborator for the past thirty years.

“It’s written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.” Gilmour elaborates, “We spent a load of time during and after lockdown talking about and thinking about those kind of things.”

The album features eight new songs, including a reworking of The Montgolfier Brothers’ ‘Between Two Points’ and a title track which features late Pink Floyd Keyboardist Richard Wright, who was recorded during a jam in a barn at Gilmour's house in 2007.

The album’s cover image, photographed and designed by Anton Corbijn, is inspired by a lyric written by Charlie Gilmour for the album’s final song ‘Scattered’.

David Gilmour Luck and Strange.

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