Steven Wilson has likened Wet Dream, the recently re-released debut solo album from Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, to “a long-lost 1970s Pink Floyd album that you’ve never heard.”
Originally released by Harvest on September 22, 1978, the largely-instrumental 10-track album, recorded by Wright in France in early 1978, went largely unnoticed at the time of its release, charting only in Norway, where it peaked at number 20: in the US, the album peaked at number 203. Remixed by Porcupine Tree frontman Wilson, the reissued edition of Wet Dream was released digitally on July 28, on what would have been Wright's 80th birthday, and will get a vinyl release via Parlophone on September 29.
Speaking to The Telegraph, in a paywalled interview, Wilson suggests that, for Pink Floyd fans, particularly those who enjoy "the more melancholic" side of the band's recordings, there's much to like about the album.
