Obscured By Clouds (2011 Remastered Version) Pink Floyd

• 1 Obscured By Clouds (2011 Remastered Version) 03:04
• 2 When You're In (2011 Remastered Version) 02:31
• 3 Burning Bridges (2011 Remastered Version) 03:30
• 4 The Gold It's In The ... (2011 Remastered Version) 03:07
• 5 Wots ... Uh The Deal (2011 Remastered Version) 05:09
• 6 Mudmen (2011 Remastered Version) 04:17
• 7 Childhood's End (2011 Remastered Version) 04:33
• 8 Free Four (2011 Remastered Version) 04:16
• 9 Stay (2011 Remastered Version) 04:07
• 10 Absolutely Curtains (2011 Remastered Version) 05:52
• Total Runtime 40:26

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Obscured by Clouds is the seventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 2 June 1972 by Harvest and Capitol Records. It serves as the soundtrack for the French film La Vallée, by Barbet Schroeder. It was recorded in two sessions in France, while Pink Floyd were in the midst of touring, and produced by the band.

Obscured by Clouds is shorter than some of Pink Floyd's previous albums, and makes heavy use of the acoustic guitar. Lyrically, the songs centre around love, a common theme in the film the album was inspired by. The album's only single was "Free Four". Obscured by Clouds has been seen as a stopgap for the band, who had started work on their next album, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973). The album reached number six in the United Kingdom and number 46 in the United States; retrospective opinions from both fans and critics have been mixed, with some critics noting the similarities to their later material.

"Obscured by Clouds is the soundtrack to the Barbet Schroeder film La Vallée, and it plays that way. Of course, it's possible to make the argument that Pink Floyd's music of the early '70s usually played as mood music, similar to film music, but it had structure and a progression. Here, the instrumentals float pleasantly, filled with interesting textures, yet they never seem to have much of a purpose. Often, they seem quite tied to their time, either in their spaciness or in the pastoral folkiness, two qualities that are better brought out on the full-fledged songs interspersed throughout the record. Typified by "Burning Bridges" and "Wot's...uh the Deal," these songs explore some of the same musical ground as those on Atom Heart Mother and Meddle, yet they are more concise and have a stronger structure. But the real noteworthy numbers are the surprisingly heavy blues-rocker "The Gold It's in The...," which, as good as it is, is trumped by the stately, ominous "Childhood's End" and the jaunty pop tune "Free Four," two songs whose obsessions with life, death, and the past clearly point toward Dark Side of the Moon. ("Childhood's End" also suggests Dark Side in its tone and arrangement.) As startlingly advanced as these last two songs are, they're not enough to push the rest of Obscured by Clouds past seeming just like a soundtrack, yet these tunes, blended with the sensibility of Meddle, suggest what Pink Floyd was about to develop into." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

David Gilmour, guitars, vocals
Nick Mason, drums, percussion
Roger Waters, bass, vocals
Richard Wright, keyboards, vocals

Recorded 23 February – 6 April 1972 at Château d'Hérouville, Hérouville, France
Produced by Pink Floyd

Digitally remastered

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