{"id":8659,"date":"2015-10-16T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T09:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8659"},"modified":"2015-10-18T22:24:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T22:24:18","slug":"album-mini-review-david-gilmour-rattle-that-lock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/16\/album-mini-review-david-gilmour-rattle-that-lock\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: David Gilmour &#8212; Rattle That Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/gilmour_rattle.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>File Next to: Pink Floyd, <strong>The Orb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribecom-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B011J4O3RG&amp;asins=B011J4O3RG&amp;linkId=XFXJSHHR35QZPTPA&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the knocks \u2013 fair or not \u2013 on <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>&#8216;s pair of post-<strong>Roger Waters<\/strong> albums (1987&#8217;s <em>A Momentary Lapse of Reason<\/em> and 1994&#8217;s <em>The Division Bell<\/em>) is that leader <strong>David Gilmour<\/strong> tried too hard to make them sound like the group&#8217;s classic-era material (<em>Obscured by Clouds<\/em> through <em>The Dark Side of the Moon<\/em>). The posthumous release (2014&#8217;s <em>The Endless River<\/em>) has clear sonic similarities with the group&#8217;s early &#8217;70s material, too. But on his solo studio albums \u2013 a mere four since 1978 \u2013 Gilmour has always managed to pull off a daunting feat: largely refusing to ape the Floyd sound while focusing on the melodicism that has always been a trademark of his work, solo or otherwise. On <em>Rattle That Lock<\/em>, Gilmour pushes the boundaries a bit farther: the delightful cocktail-jazz interlude on \u201cDancing Right in Front of Me\u201d \u2013 and the jazzy entirety of \u201cThe Girl in the Yellow Dress\u201d have little precedent in his work (note that the 1971 Floyd obscurity \u201cBiding My Time\u201d is a Waters tune). Gilmour has long since recognized that lyric writing is not his strongest suit; for those, he&#8217;s long relied upon wife <strong>Polly Samson<\/strong>, and here she provides reflective and suitably melancholy words for Gilmour&#8217;s tunes. And for those who insist upon some Pink Floyd-style rocking out, \u201cToday\u201d should fit that bill nicely; it sounds slightly out of place on this disc, but would fit nicely on <em>The Wall<\/em>. Gilmour has always been more about texture than hooks, yet like his best work, the songs on <em>Rattle That Lock<\/em> will remain in the heads of faithful listeners.<\/p>\n<p><em>An edited version of this review appeared in the <\/em>Colorado Springs Independent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Next to: Pink Floyd, The Orb One of the knocks \u2013 fair or not \u2013 on Pink Floyd&#8216;s pair of post-Roger Waters albums (1987&#8217;s A Momentary Lapse of Reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[635,1705],"class_list":["post-8659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-david-gilmour","tag-pink-floyd","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8659"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8898,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions\/8898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}