A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON

Pink Floyd's Momentry Lapse of Reason is a vast improvement over the atrocious Final Cut by Roger Walters. Granted it was never going to be world beater of an album due to the fact that Gilmour had help writing the lryics to the songs along with the very limited influence of Wright & Mason.

However in my opinion it is still a good floyd album. Sorrow is a great effort of which which Gilmour wrote in its entireity and threw in a fantastic guitar intro for good measure along with creditable lyrics.

There are radio friendly tracks on the album such as 'One Slip' and 'Learning To Fly' which may not be progressive but are very enjoyable to listen to. One Slip is a great dance track which is always the first I select on my cd player.

Learning to Fly is a great rock track with superb smoothing vocals by Dave Gilmour. Its also very much an uplifting positive song.

Unfortunately there is a downside to this album. Tracks such as 'New Machine pts 1-2' and 'Terminal Frost' let the overall standard of the album down. New Machine is slightly annoying with Gilmour's distorted vocal and track doesnt seem to go anywhere musically and lyrically. Terminal Frost is a weak instrumental with unnessersairy saxaphone.

Round and Around is good even through it is only half a minute long and its a shame that Gilmour couldn't of done more with this track and added Rick Wrights influence into the mix in terms of keyboard.

To sum up Momentry Lapse is a very good effort and it definately worth purchasing. Listen to it with an open mind and don't try to compare it to other floyd albums as it is Gilmour floyd and not Roger Waters floyd (two totally different sounds and approaches).