MEDDLE

Yawn, yet another sleep inducing album from the Floyd. I have no idea why 'Echoes' is so popular among prog fans, it does not impress me much and comes dangerously close to ambient territory although there is a brief part of it that is listenable. The rest of the album just goes in one ear and out the other like so much of Floyd's 70s output. There are also some mild country influences on some of the tracks which make the Floydsters even more boring than usual. At least other bands that are usually boring, for example Uriah Heep, try their best to do something exciting and sometimes succeed, Pink Floyd however were content to just cruise along in boring mode and put anyone, that dares to listen to their albums, to sleep. This album is so weak that it leaves no taste in my mouth not even a bad one, at least Ummagumma is annoying this is just a soundtrack to a coma much like Animals.