David Gilmour is pleased with his latest solo album, Luck and Strange, which is set to be released on September 6. In fact, the longtime Pink Floyd guitarist says the album is his best work in more than 50 years. In a new interview with Prog magazine, published by GuitarWorld.com, Gilmour stated that Luck and Strange is better than anything he’s released since one of Pink Floyd’s most renowned albums. “It’s over 50 years now since The Dark Side of the Moon,” he told me. “My feeling is that this album is the best album I’ve made in all those years since 1973 when The Dark Side of the Moon came out.”
Luck and Strange is Gilmour’s first solo album since 2015’s Rattle That Lock. The 78-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer claimed that working with a partially new band of collaborators has allowed him to adopt a different approach to creating new music. Charlie Andrew, a producer well known for his work with British indie rock band Alt-J, co-produced Luck and Strange alongside Gilmour.
Gilmour told Prog that one of Andrew’s strengths is his willingness to express himself in the studio. “When you have achieved the higher levels of success, most of the people that come into your sphere are going to look to you,” David told me. “They’re not going to be like Charlie—Charlie is the kind of refreshing thing that you want to have happen to you.” Already planning a follow-up album. Gilmour indicated that he is already working on a follow-up record with the same set of musicians and studio collaborators after completing his tour in support of Luck and Strange.
“Our plan is just to get this one out and run it and then do another one straight away,” according to him. “I will work with all of these people again. I’ve had this situation in the past where I wanted to put myself in the studio with a few folks and just toss everything about, but I didn’t know who those individuals were.
He went on to say, “And that pressure has now subsided since I have these phone numbers. It seems like a team, and I enjoy being on a team—I didn’t choose to be a single artist.”
