MEDDLE

I personally thinks that this is the first PF album to succesfully 'escape' from the shadows of Syd Barrett musically, unlike many PF fans that thinks their first was DSotM. And it is their first brilliant album in the prog vein too. Anyway, let's start from "One of These Days". The song begin with Gilmour's riff, reached climax with that famous sentence "one of these days i'm going to cut you into little pieces" and Gilmour's soaring guitar again. "A Pillow of Winds" is a good track, and offered a relaxing moment before "Fearless", a good song with inspiring lyrics and is in the same vein with "A Pillow of Winds", though the chant is annoying.

The next two tracks, "San Tropez", and "Seamus" offered a different approach and is filler tracks in my opinion. But the highlight is "Echoes", one of the most brilliant tracks PF ever made that easily beats DSotM in my playlist. It's a real epic track, with the perfect combination of Gilmour and Wright, funky bass lines from Waters and one of Mason's best drumming.

Overall, "Echoes" and "One of These Days" received 5 stars but the rest is just 4 stars. 4 and a half.