PINK FLOYD // The Endless River
(Out now, Sony)
Pink Floyd’s founding member and keyboardist Rick
Wright died in 2008 and this album is a tribute for him
from his bandmates, David Gilmour and Nick Mason, who
drew on his influence by listening to over 20 hours of the
trio playing together and selected the music they wanted
to work on for the new album. Says Nick, “I think this
record is a good way of recognising a lot of what he does
and how his playing was at the heart of the Pink Floyd
sound. Listening back to the sessions, it really brought
home to me what a special player he was.” The Endless
River is mainly a four-sided instrumental album with one
song, Louder Than Words, which will include new lyrics by
Polly Samson, a British songwriter, novelist and journalist
married to Gilmour www.pinkfloyd.com/theendlessriver
DAVID BOWIE // Nothing Has Changed
(Out now, Parlophone)
Bowie is back, and the choices to savour this legend of cool are bigger
than Ben Hur. David Bowie has released his definitive collection in a
double CD, double vinyl, digital download, all with individual artwork
just because he can! We’re talking a collection of songs from 1964 to
2014 and a bonus of some previously unreleased material as well as
tracks making their debut on CD. Mega is an understatement, with
CD1 starting with Space Oddity and ending with Ashes to Ashes with
21 tracks in all, while CD2 has 18 tracks starting with Under Pressure
with Queen and ends with his new track Sue (or In A Season of
Crime). In 2015 the 1CD and 3CD versions of Nothing Has Changed
will be released to coincide with the acclaimed ‘David Bowie Is’
exhibition in Melbourne. Australia is one of the few territories globally
that has been given permission to release the 1CD version www.davidbowie.com/nhc
THE OCCUPANTS //
Hindsight EP
(Dec 5, Pavement Records)
LiQUiFY | 100
When hard rock outfit Cog
disbanded a few years back, it
left a massive hole in the soundscape of contemporary Australian
music - but fear not, resurrected and remade comes vocalist Flynn
Gower’s newest creation, the mighty Occupants with their debut
EP. Fresh from Byron Bay’s Music Farm Studios, there’s intensity,
melody, ethereal dreamscapes, synth, talented song-writing and
everything in between in here. The four-track EP features extended
versions and the first 1000 ordered will be hand signed. You MUST
have this EP from Flynn and Luke Gower, Leigh Davies who is exSleep Parade, and drummer Troy Wright. Available from www.theoccupants.bigcartel.com/product/hindsight-ep