The Endless River
| Pink Floyd
The Endless River
The Endless River is the fifteenth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released in November 2014 by Parlophone Records in the United Kingdom and Columbia Records in the United States. Following The Division Bell (1994), it is the third Pink Floyd album recorded under the leadership of guitarist David Gilmour after the departure of Roger Waters in 1985, and the first following the death of keyboardist Rick Wright in 2008, who appears posthumously. Gilmour said he was "pretty certain" it would be the final Pink Floyd album. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
This mostly instrumental record is to late Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright what Wish You Were Here was to Syd Barrett: a eulogy of sorts, a commemoration of his contributions to the band in particular and to rock in general.
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Rolling Stone
Mostly instrumental set honors the band’s psychedelic legacy.
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The Guardian
The Endless River review – ‘a good way to call it a day’
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Ultimate Classic Rock
It may not be the final LP fans want from one of classic rock's most beloved bands, but as a closing-chapter tribute to both their late bandmate and lasting legacy, it's kinda fitting.
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Consequence of Sound
As a whole, The Endless River is a very evocative collection of music.
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Billboard
A riveting and beautiful piece of music, yes, but not quite a definitive statement.
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Uncut
Finally! The first new album in 20 years proves . . . graceful [and] open-hearted.
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Telegraph
The influential band's final album, cut from 1993 Division Bell sessions, will make you feel nostalgic.
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NME
A lightweight coda from a truly heavyweight group.
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Drowned in Sound
If the album looks back more than it looks forward, well, its makers have earned the right to a reprise. But then again, it wouldn’t work so well if they hadn’t managed to evoke something timeless all along.
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Pop Matters
On The Endless River, Pink Floyd sounds as strong as it did during some of its best years. On this almost entirely instrumental album, however, the lyrics are sorely missed.
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The Independent
Boring and desperately disappointing.
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The Sunday Morning Herald
So this is it, the end. It has come not with a bang, nor a whimper, but as a departure writ in water: a stream of musical consciousness. Or as Pink Floyd have called it: The Endless River.
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The Financial Times
The band’s first album in 20 years is a graceful, largely instrumental meditation on their own past.
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Forbes
I would say that Pink Floyd is succeeding now for the same reason Lorde broke out a year ago and Hozier is having his moment too: simply put, we need them more than they need us—and we know it.
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All Music
Gilmour and Mason know this is their farewell, so they're saying goodbye not with a major statement but with a soft, bittersweet elegy that functions as a canny coda to their career.
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Record Collector Mag
If ever an album begs repeated listening, it’s this one, which manages to surprise and reassure at the same time.
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The Voice
This album was really great, but could be stronger in certain areas.
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Vintage Rock
More than anything, The Endless River proves that without Rick Wright on board, the likelihood of a Pink Floyd reunion is pretty much slim to nil.
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L.A. Times
Pink Floyd drifts toward nothingness on 'The Endless River'.
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Clash Magazine
A terrifically tedious affair of absolutely no consequence.
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L.A. Music Blog
The album doesn’t tarnish anything (honestly, it really can’t — the music is so soothing and at-peace with itself that, treated as a separate entity, it’s a harmless album of sonics that could appeal to anyone), but it also doesn’t do anything other than uselessly extend Pink Floyd’s lifespan another two decades.
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Toronto Sun
If this is the last word on Pink Floyd, perhaps that’s exactly as it should be.
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PPCorn
If you are a fan of the more progressive side of Pink Floyd, or love the instrumental suites of music of the likes of Mike Oldfield, there will be plenty to love about The Endless River. It may well turn out to be the bands swan-song, and if so, it is a fitting finale.
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All About Jazz
Endless River is the band's swansong and with it, it ends on a high note.
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Live for Live Music
This is Pink Floyd’s farewell, a grandiose work that reaches back across the band’s greatest musical achievements, ignoring the lines in the sand from years of fighting to create a final statement.
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Background Magazine
So what we have here is a nice, enjoyable, pleasant instrumental for the most part album that Pink Floyd fans can listen too for a while then file away and go back to listening to the real stuff.
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Tech Aeris
While I will listen to The Endless River, it is probably one of the only Pink Floyd albums I won’t listen to all tracks of.
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Under the Radar Mag
Wright was, at times, more composer than rock musician, and he deserves better than this meandering, dithering collection of Muzak. The Endless River belongs not in the pantheon of the great Pink Floyd, but in a hotel elevator.
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Audiophile Review
I don't think The Endless River is any sort of pedestrian, throw-away album. It is another snapshot of the inner workings of Pink Floyd, presented in a sort of instrumental manner.
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Guitar Planet Magazine
The Endless River’s climatic suite, is a joy to behold, a work of hushed brilliance that steers Gilmour, Mason and Wright towards “Louder Than Words” - an idyllic endnote for any album and a fitting farewell to the greatest of careers.
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All Things Loud
The Endless River may be 90% instrumental and sound quite repetitive, but it does the job and is exactly what you’d expect it to be – a coherent album from Pink Floyd.
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Daily Free Press
An excellent way to say goodbye to one of the most influential and successful progressive rock bands of all time.
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Music OMH
In the passing of time they’ve aged a bit, and though they can still intermittently move us with their thoughts, it is difficult to see anywhere they could go from here musically. It is the right time to go.
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Something Else Reviews
The Endless River doesn’t simply attempt to frame a third-act sense of forgiveness, as welcome as that may be. It does something more important still: This project reminds you, in its own uncompromisingly throwback fashion, of everything that made Pink Floyd so fantastically weird, so wildly intriguing, so very different back then.
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Modern Rock Review
The Endless River is far from the strongest Pink Floyd album as it doesn’t really make any profound or powerful musical statements. However, the flow of music from song to song and the album’s title itself may suggest a deeper statement on closing the loop on a half century of the highest quality experimental music ever.
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Sputnik Music
The Endless River will be remembered in years to come. A genuine attempt at encompassing the spirit of Floyd.
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Popdose
Of course, good things can come out of aging entertainers needing money. See the Monty Python reunion show.
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NBHAP
Pink Floyd’s last album is of course nothing to be compared to their greatest recordings but it’s worthwhile nonetheless, with sparks of old genius here and there.
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Ghost Cult Magazine
The Endless River is not wholly unenjoyable.
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Brain Damage
The Endless River in 53 minutes relegates a lot of music production to a rapid aging oblivion making it a modern and contemporary composition with 20 years of age.
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Glide Magazine
The Endless River is best viewed for what it was meant to be: a fitting tribute to the late Richard Wright, whose stellar keyboard work—the bedrock of the band, really—takes on the role as lead vocalist here
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Darren Reid History
Endless monotony.
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Las Vegas Weekly
The Endless River serves as a sad footnote to one of rock’s proudest legacies.
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Mike Ladano
The Endless River is an intriguing idea with successful execution.
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Joel Gausten
The Endless River takes us on one final trip through the creative minds of a unique combination of players and songwriters that left an indelible mark on the world of music.
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Eric Mack Attacks
The Endless River may have been some kind of itch that David Gilmour felt like he needed to scratch, but the album will serve as nothing more than a palate cleanser or a passing curiosity to most, and not even the most die-hard fans will find much of a need to parse through what’s here.
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Irish Mirror
A fond and fitting farewell.
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10 After
The Endless River may stand as beautiful tribute to Richard Wright. However the main issue is what it isn’t – and it isn’t an album by Pink Floyd, at least not the Floyd we once knew.
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Off the Tracks
The career of Pink Floyd was always going to end with a whimper, not a bang. But just to show you so the band has gone ahead and proved it.
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Oceanview Press
A highly enjoyable listening experience and if you love Pink Floyd, there’s no reason you wouldn’t love this.
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A Fleeting Glimpse
This album is simply OUTSTANDING !!! It leaves me completely without words !!!
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Kevin Stephany's Critique Compendium
The Endless River . . . served as a fitting encomium to an outstanding musician.
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Beat Magazine
If The Endless River really is the end, it’s an absolutely fitting finale for one of the greatest bands of all time.
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The Edge SUSU
It’s by far not their greatest work, but a fitting end to an awe-inspiring career that changed the face of music forever.
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Mirror
A fond and fitting farewell.
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Sea of Tranquility
As you would expect from a Pink Floyd album, it's expertly produced, easily one of the most gorgeous sounding recordings you'll hear this year.
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The Link Newspaper
Fragmented Pink Floyd releases collection of instrumental tracks reminiscent of their past to conclude nearly 50 years of psychedelic rock supremacy.
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Peek-A-Boo Magazine
Pink Floyd remain one of the most influential outfits this nation has produced.
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The Pop Break
Overall, The Endless River is a success.
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The State of the Arts
Still unmistakably them, older and wiser while sounding younger and fresher for the first time in years.
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The Hoya
While it is a peaceful listen with sounds that do distinctly recall Pink Floyd’s old style, it is simply nothing spectacular when compared to the band’s other work.
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The Progmeister
Dyed in the wool Floyd fans may well fall in love with this album. Though i would say to it’s dissenters it must be given a chance in much the same way that many of the Floyd’s popular albums were. It may well pay off.
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Mind Equals Blown
For a final album, I felt like there would be a grand ending or a necessary close to the curtain of the mystique that is Pink Floyd. Just maybe, we have to find that on the dark side of the moon.
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Exclaim!
The Endless River serves its purpose as well as a collection of unreleased material can — it remembers an integral band member while reflecting on past glories in a reserved, respectable fashion.
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Golden Plec
It’s a wonderfully complex sequence of music which requires a start-to-finish approach from the listener.
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The Torch BCC
Pink Floyd’s “Endless River” is a contaminated stream.
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The Fire Note
The Endless River provides a closing gesture for a band.
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Off the Record
It’s not the best Pink Floyd album, it’s far from their worst album. It’s a nice farewell and I’m glad they decided to release it.
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Psychedelic Baby Mag
Endless River comes off like the final two hour special for a television sit-com series, where there are endless flashbacks, outtakes worked in, and an attempt to tie things together … though sadly always coming off a bit disingenuous.
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34st
Pink Floyd's 15th and final album leaves British psychedelic rock fans with a bittersweet taste in their mouth.
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The Star
Pink Floyd's Endless River is dull and meandering.
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TIDAL Read
It’s a reasonably graceful departure.
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Renowned for Sound
Pink Floyd haven’t done anything new with The Endless River, but they don’t need to. It’s a swan song to the last leg of their career and a good send off into whatever comes next. A must for Pink Floyd fans, and can even serve as a gentle introduction to their earlier masterpieces.
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Get Ready to Rock
And it may not be the epitaph fans were hoping for, but in some ways it is, nevertheless, a rather fitting swansong and final salute to Richard William ‘Rick’ Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008).
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KXSU Radio
The Endless River serves as a proper final goodbye to Pink Floyd and their legacy.
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Blank Gold Coast
The Endless River is lacking in the edge and substance that Roger Waters’ angsty lyricism brought to the table. However it is a well-produced and atmospheric nostalgia trip that allows the group to fade away in classic prog rock style, rather than burn out. And that’s not a bad thing.
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The Phanton Tollbooth
The Endless River has sonic moments and continues their great musical message, leaving the cacophony of youthful rebellion behind with The Wall and maturing to a reflective message of hope and love in The Endless River.
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Demon Media
Ultimately, this album is for diehard fans of Pink Floyd (and those who enjoy sound they don’t have to listen to), certainly not for the casual music fan.
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Courier Journal
Pink Floyd's 'Endless River' disappoints.
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Tuff Gnarl
When listened to in a context, it makes more sense and is ultimately a better album because, on its own two feet, it’s simply average.
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Misophonic
The Endless River seems feels little more than elaborate cupboard clearing.
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Victor Li
Nope. Couldn’t do it.
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Gigslutz
The Endless River sits as an elegant, lilting coda to their career rather than a bombastic grand finale.
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News Record
The album inevitably takes on an elegiac tone, a posthumous spotlight on Wright — Pink Floyd’s secret weapon.
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Buffalo News
There is beauty and elegance in abundance here.
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