UPDATE TO BELOW STORY................../
David Gilmour has released a video for the title track of his new album, Luck and Strange. It features the late Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright as the song was born out of the jam they had in 2007 in a barn at David’s house. Wright died in 2008.
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David Gilmour has been hyping his new album, Luck and Strange, since April, and today it will finally be released.
His wife, novelist Polly Samson, wrote the majority of the lyrics, saying 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, recorded in 2007 at a jam in a barn at David’s house.
Also, some contributions emerged from the livestreams that Gilmour, Polly and their four children performed to a global audience during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. Daughter Romany provides the lead vocal and harp on "Between Two Points" with her brother Gabriel on backing vocals. His son Charlie wrote lyrics for the album's final song, "Scattered," and Joe, when he was two, can be heard saying "sing daddy, sing daddy" on "Sings."
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.”
Gilmour feels it's his best album since Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, and a lot of that had to do with it being a collaborative effort.
Luck and Strange comes nine years after his last album, 2015's Rattle That Lock, which came nine years after the previous one, On an Island in 2006.