DAVID GILMOUR
Track by track
Abrief rundown of the album’s new songs
BLACK CAT
At just a minute and a half, the album’s instrumental opener features just Gilmour on guitar and piano, plus ambient genius Roger Eno on synthesiser. Black
Cat
features a replacement for the infamous black Strat that David sold at auction in 2019 for over £3,000,000. A typically simple piece in C minor, the playing could be no one else. It’s beautiful, tasteful and although mainly minor pentatonic-based, is laced with colour tones, glorious bends, and subtle vibrato, not to mention that echo-laden ‘fingerprint’ Stratocaster tone.
LUCK AND STRANGE
“LuckAndStrange
comes from a jam that we did in 2007 while Rick Wright was still alive,” Gilmour explains. “I wrote choruses and bridges for it and Polly wrote these great words. From the first second you hear Rick playing his electric piano, you just know there’s something about it that no one else could do.” Introduced by Gilmour’s black Gretsch Duo-Jet, it’s as close as he ever gets to a foot-tapper. The changes are very Floyd-y, too, especially the Em-C in the bridge, followed by the very