ATOM HEART MOTHER

The title track of Atom Heart Mother rightly deserves the price of one of the best Pink Floyd compositions if not the best. The orchestral wind sections introduce the theme with some very majestic atmospheres as if the king walks right into my living room. The funeral atmospheric violin session afterwards brings down the mood to the next more spacial session with woman vocals singing in pastoral moods. This composition also offers some horrifying space passages and guitar space rock. It's not just the complexity, but it's the atmosphere of this composition which was never done any better by Pink Floyd or in prog in general. The guest musicians are doing some great job here as is doing Pink Floyd themselves. There are some great outbursts in the end of this composition.

The second side offer some shorter songs which never attracted me. I gave up on these songs because they gave me some bad taste after listening to this record and brings down the quality of the otherwise great record.

Because of the great atmospheric side filling title track this record is a good addition to any prog collection.