By Kevin Rutherford
After teasing material over the past few weeks from their first album in 20 years, Pink Floyd have finally revealed the first full track from The Endless River.
“Louder Than Words,” which according to the track list is the final song on the record, was released today (Oct. 9) via U.K. radio.
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It’s the only song on the album that features lead vocals from David Gilmour; The Endless River has been billed as a predominantly instrumental affair.
“It’s louder than words/the sum of our parts,” he sings. “The beat of our hearts/It’s louder than words.”
Instrumentally, the song is fairly classic Pink Floyd, featuring moaning guitar and a space-y mid-tempo feel.
The Endless River and its 14 songs seems likely to feature a cameo from Stephen Hawking on the track “Talkin’ Hawkin’,” at least if an album credits leak discovered by Reddit is to be believed. It’s also purported to be the very last Pink Floyd album created by Gilmour and Nick Mason, at least according to Gilmour in a new interview.
“Well, Rick [Wright] is gone. This is the last thing that’ll be out from us,” Gilmour said in a talk with the BBC today. “I’m pretty certain there will not be any follow up to this. And Polly, my wife, thought that would be a very good lyrical idea to go out on. A way of describing the symbiosis that we have. Or had.”
The Endless River is out Nov. 10.
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