David Gilmour will release a new album, Luck and Strange, on September 6th.
David's wife, novelist Polly Samson, wrote the majority of the lyrics, and she says they were "written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.”
And David adds, “We spent a load of time during and after lockdown talking about and thinking about those kind of things.”
The album contains nine songs, with the title track featuring the late Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright. That song was recorded in 2007 at a jam in a barn at David’s house.
Also, some contributions emerged from the livestreams that Gilmour and his family performed to a global audience during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. His daughter Romany Gilmour provides the lead vocals and harp on "Between Two Points," with her brother Gabriel on backing vocals. And another of Gilmour's children, his son Charlie, wrote a lyrics for the album's final song, "Scattered."
On the album being a family affair, David says, “Polly and I have been writing together for over 30 years and the Von Trapped livestreams 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.”
"The Piper’s Call," the first song off the album, will be out later today, followed by the video on Friday.
Luck and Strange comes nine years after his last album, 2015's Rattle and Lock, which came nine years after the previous one, On an Island in 2006.
David Gilmour - Luck and Strange - track list:
- "Black Cat"
- "Luck and Strange"
- "The Piper’s Call"
- "A Single Spark"
- "Vita Brevis"
- "Between Two Points"
- "Dark and Velvet Nights"
- "Sings"
- "Scattered"
CD bonus tracks:
- "Yes, I Have Ghosts"
- "Luck and Strange (original barn jam)"