David Gilmour and his recently re-cast Pink Floyd nemesis Roger Waters couldn’t be on more different musical paths right now. While Waters has raced directly from his highly political This Is Not a Drill tour to the alt. media barricades of the Israel-Palestine conflict, sonically Gilmour – on this fifth solo album, his first in nine years – is to be found lounging on the deck of a cruise ship ruminating on his Floyd past, the nature of mortality and life under lockdown.
For the more precise studio craftsmen, lockdown albums are still filtering out, and Luck And Strange is among the most broad-themed of the genre. It’s something of a family affair – Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson writes most of the lyrics, son Charlie contributes words to Scattered, and daughter Romany sings on Between Two Points – and its songs are long stewed in discussions chez Gilmour around the pandemic and matters beyond.
