THE DIVISION BELL

The interesting question with this album is: do you judge it as any prog album or as a Pink Floyd album, at their standard that is. And that makes a big difference I feel, because their standard is pretty high, if not extremely high. And if you judge it as any prog album, meaning as if it was done by any random band then the story is a totally different one.

Because then we are talking about a high quality album any other progband would sign for. But Floyd, well they have done such incredible things in their career. And then come up with this album, hmmm...

Make no mistake, I like it a lot, it's at least somewhere between good and very good but excellent as Floyds 70's albums used to be, no really. Well, at least it's a lot better than for instance A Momentary Lapse of Reason but that was a rather pale album all in all. This is more inspired, more sparkling again. Almost like in the old days.

But it comes nowhere near Wish you were here, Animals or even Atom Heart Mother as far as I'm concerned. So Therefore I can't give it the excellence status alas. But I'm fair enough to admit it's actually somewhere around 3,5. For Floyd standard that is....