Two warhorses from different ends of the great British rock gallop of the 1960s have emerged from their respective ancient stables with the bit between their teeth and new solo albums.
For Dave Gilmour, this is his fourth solo album and the first since declaring Pink Floyd no longer a going concern and the release last year's headstone album The Endless River.
Gilmour hasn't exactly stretched out far from the old firm. There's many of those deliberately-phrased just-so guitar solos of his which evoke time-lapsed shots of swirling clouds; plenty of massed backing-singer choruses of lyrics co-penned by Gilmour's novelist wife Polly Samson; an occasional minimal keyboard figure which evokes late Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright.
There are occasional surprises, like the Leonard Cohen-esque Faces of Stone, the Crosby Stills and Nash-flavoured (because it actually features Crosby and Nash) folk hymn of A Boat Lies Waiting and the slow late night jazz of The Girl in the Yellow Dress.
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