The Endless River: Love it or Hate it?

I personally enjoy this album a lot, mainly because I read a PA review for it that describes each side of the album as a season of the year, which gave me an entirely new perspective on the album. 

My understanding is that most of it was written by I.P. Freely

I'd say yes. It belongs in the lower half of my PF album ranking list, but it is still pretty good.

Best Rick Wright solo album, with Gilmour as guest appearance if you ask me

I wouldn't vote `No' exactly...I mean, it's a nice bonus, but it's kind of throwaway and forgettable...and it's odd that it sometimes sounds like `The Wall', considering Roger had nothing to do with it!

For me, Floyd ended with the lovely feast that was `The Division Bell', a more than respectable `last meal'....and `The Endless River' was the leftovers and extras that go home in the doggie bag...still enjoyable, but not very satisfying.

I liked it. Nothing ground breaking, but an enjoyable listen.

Atavachron wrote: My understanding is that most of it was written by I.P. Freely

I do like it a lot... perhaps near "love it". It was the first album in a very long time that I gave myself time to put it on and just lie down and listen to it whole, and it was really beatiful, I don't think I would have enjoyed it nearly as much if I had been doing something else at the same time. Still, I think "The Division Bell" was an even better album... though as a swansong album this one might work just as nicely, if it were not for one problem: High Hopes is, for me, the best song a band could hope to finish their career with, and until a few years ago it was Floyd's swansong, but now it's "Louder than Words", one of the weaker tracks on the album, and not even a pale shadow of what High Hopes is. One last thought on the album... after hearing it, I can just imagine that if they had the mind for it, if they had included the best parts of this album on The Division Bell (even at the cost of leaving out some of the songs that made the cut), then that album could have ended up being even greater... some of the instrumental passages could even have been part of some of the songs on DB, making them longer and more akin to what they did in the 70's.

I borrowed it from the library at one point. It's good but I wouldn't say it's one of their best or even one of the best of the ones just below their best. I would say it's probably as good as the final cut or obscured by clouds though.