Pink Floyd have premiered a music video for "Louder Than Words", the only track on their new album, The Endless River, to include vocals, and a reflection on the group's 50-year saga written by David Gilmour's wife Polly Sampson.

"Her words really spoke to something about the band," Gilmour tells RollingStone.com , "certainly when it came to Rick [Wright] and myself. We speak better with our musical instruments."

Director Po Powell shot much of the footage for the song's video near the remains of the Aral Sea on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. He got the idea when he saw an image of rusting ships lying in the sand where the river used to flow.

"A surreal image if ever I saw one," says Powell, "and a shocking example of human mismanagement and one of the planet's worst environmental disasters. . . The river has shrunk to 10 percent of its original size, destroying the fishing industry and whole townships."

Check out the video below, and read more at RollingStone.com.

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"Pink Floyd's new album The Endless River is coming out in one week, but those who can't wait can listen to the newly released track 'Allons-y (1)' right here. Like nearly every song on the album, it's an instrumental piece, with a bit of a 'Run Like Hell' vibe at the beginning before getting more ethereal:

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Streaming below is a full 9-minute EPK (Electronic Press Kit) for The Endless River, available from today in Europe and tomorrow, Tuesday, November 11th in North America via Columbia Records.

In the clip below, David Gilmour talks about the "dysfunctional human relationships" in the band, and their communication problems. David gets onto the subject by speaking about the lyrics to the Pink Floyd track "Louder Than Words”, found on The Endless River.

Audio samples from The Endless River, the long-awaited new Pink Floyd album from David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason, can be heard streaming below. The album is produced by David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Youth, and Andy Jackson.

David Gilmour states: “The Endless River has as its starting point the music that came from the 1993 Division Bell sessions. We listened to over 20 hours of the three of us playing together and selected the music we wanted to work on for the new album. Over the last year we've added new parts, re-recorded others and generally harnessed studio technology to make a 21st century Pink Floyd album. With Rick gone, and with him the chance of ever doing it again, it feels right that these revisited and reworked tracks should be made available as part of our repertoire.”

Nick Mason comments: “The Endless River is a tribute to Rick. I think this record is a good way of recognizing a lot of what he does and how his playing was at the heart of the Pink Floyd sound. Listening back to the sessions, it really brought home to me what a special player he was.”

The Endless River is mainly a four-sided instrumental album with one song, “Louder Than Words”, which will include new lyrics by Polly Samson.

The concept for the powerful imagery of a man rowing on a “river” of clouds was created by Ahmed Emad Eldin, an 18-year-old Egyptian digital artist. Ahmed’s image was then re-created by Stylorouge, award-winning UK design agency.

Pink Floyd’s album artwork, mostly created by Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis, is as legendary as the band’s music. With Storm’s passing in 2013, the task of finding an image that carried on Storm’s legacy passed to Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, Storm’s original partner in Hipgnosis.

Po states: "When we saw Ahmed’s image it had an instant Floydian resonance. It’s enigmatic and open to interpretation, and is the cover that works so well for The Endless River.”

 

 

The Endless River’s tracklisting runs across four sides, to invoke the album listening experience:

Side 1

"Things Left Unsaid"
"It’s What We Do"
"Ebb And Flow"

Side 2

"Sum"
"Skins"
"Unsung"
"Anisina"

Side 3

"The Lost Art of Conversation"
"On Noodle Street"
"Night Light"
"Allons-y (1)"       

"Autumn’68"       

"Allons-y (2)"      

"Talkin’ Hawkin'"

Side 4

"Calling"
"Eyes To Pearls"
"Surfacing"
"Louder Than Words"

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