Pink Floyd announces "Endless River" full-length album release date

PanARMENIAN.Net - Pink Floyd is coming back with a new album. The British rock band has announced that their first new full-length in 20 years, titled "The Endless River", will be released on November 10 via Columbia, AceShowbiz said.

The album will feature 18 songs recorded by members David Gilmour, Nick Mason and the late Richard Wright, who died of cancer in 2008, during the making of the band's "The Division Bell" (1994). It is made up of mostly instrumental music. One track called "Louder Than Words" features lyrics written by Gilmour's wife, Polly Samson.

" 'The Endless River' has as its starting point the music that came from the 1993 'Division Bell' sessions," Gilmoure has said of the fothcoming album. "We listened to over 20 hours of the three of us playing together and selected the music we wanted to work on for the new album. Over the last year we've added new parts, re-recorded others and generally harnessed studio technology to make a 21st century Pink Floyd album."

"With Rick gone, and with him the chance of ever doing it again, it feels right that these revisited and reworked tracks should be made available as part of our repertoire," he continued.

" 'The Endless River' is a tribute to Rick," Mason added. "I think this record is a good way of recognizing a lot of what he does and how his playing was at the heart of the Pink Floyd sound. Listening back to the sessions, it really brought home to me what a special player he was."

The cover art of "The Endless River" has also been unveiled. Crafted by an 18-year-old Egyptian digital artist named Ahmed Emad Eldin, it sees a young man punting across a sea of clouds towards the glow of the sun.