David Gilmour has announced ‘Luck And Strange’ – his first solo album in nine years with the LP’s first offering being released later this week.
The former Pink Floyd guitarist is set to release the album’s lead single ‘The Piper’s Call’ on Thursday (April 25) on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show. The track’s accompanying music video will be released on Friday (April 26).
‘Luck and Strange’ is set for release on September 6. The LP was recorded over five months in Brighton and London. His wife – author and lyricist Polly Sampson – previously documented Gilmour’s studio visits and shared the photos on her personal Instagram.
His upcoming fifth studio LP was produced by David and Charlie Andrew (Alt-J, Wolf Alice). Speaking about the new working relationship in a press release, Gilmour shared: “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?'”
“He has a wonderful lack of knowledge or respect for this past of mine,” continued the musician. “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 track list is comprised of eight brand new tracks and a reworking of The Montgolfier Brothers’ 1999 track ‘Between Two Points’. ‘Luck and Strange’ also features contributions by Guy Pratt and Tom Herbert on bass, Adam Betts, Steve Gadd and Steve DiStanislao on drums, Rob Gentry and Roger Eno – Brian Eno‘s brother – on keyboards with string and choral arrangements by Will Gardner. The album is set for release on September 6 and is available to pre-order / pre-save here.
David Gilmour ‘Luck And Strange’ track list is:
‘Black Cat’
‘Luck and Strange’
‘The Piper’s Call’
‘A Single Spark’
‘Vita Brevis’
‘Between Two Points (with Romany Gilmour)’
‘Dark and Velvet Nights’
‘Sings’
‘Scattered’
The album’s title track also features the late Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright and was recorded in 2007 at a jam in a barn at Gilmour’s house. Other contributions for the LP emerged from the live streams that Gilmour and family performed to a global audience during the global pandemic. His daughter Romany Gilmour sings, plays the harp and appears on lead vocals on ‘Between Two Points’ and his son Gabriel Gilmour also provids backing vocals.
Speaking about working with his family in a press release, Gilmour said: “Polly and I have been writing together for over thirty years and the Von Trapped live streams showed the great blend of Romany’s voice and harp-playing and that led us into a feeling of discarding some of the past that I’d felt bound to and that I could throw those rules out and do whatever I felt like doing, and that has been such a joy.”
In other news, Gilmour recently contributed to a star-studded cover of Mark Knopfler’s ‘Going Home’ for Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.
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