Sunday, July 25, 2010

Pink Floyd, Soundtrack from the film More (side A)

While Pink Floyd's records in the early 70s tended to be awkwardly sequenced, none was as diverse and irregular as 1969's soundtrack to More. It contains a bit of everything Pink Floyd could produce at the time, from heavy guitar angst to an organ freakout to a pretty folk song. Each style is performed well, so the album really shows off the group's ability to execute within so many idioms. While the individual tracks sound great, the relative levels are sometimes quite jarring—the mastering engineer could have created a better flow. The blurry cover design (by Hipgnosis) is cool and captures the style of Pink Floyd in that era.

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