The new solo album arrives on Sept. 6, followed in the last week of October with one night at the Inuit Dome and three at the Hollywood Bowl.
David Gilmour, guitarist and singer for the legendary band Pink Floyd, released his new solo album, “Luck and Strange,” on Sept. 6, 2024. He comes to Southern California for one show at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood and three at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles over the last week of Oct.. “Those things that come back to haunt you?” Gilmour says and laughs.
“I really have an image of it, a visual image of the album as one whole thing,” Gilmour continues. “I’m not talking concept albums here or anything as old-fashioned as that. But there is something that is tied together all the way through without being deliberate or forced or intentional.“Luck and Strange,” Gilmour’s fifth solo album and first new work since 2015’s “Rattle That Lock,” arrives on Friday, Sept. 6.
“We’d do four- or five-day working weeks every week because we wanted to knock the slowness on the head, get that snowball rolling down that big hill, and move on,” Gilmour says. “And that worked brilliantly well in my view.” The title track “Luck and Strange,” like many of the tracks on the album, touches on themes of aging and mortality, blending wistfulness and hope over dreamy melodies and Gilmour’s lyrical guitar lines.
“I can’t quite remember where the groove came from, but it was banging away in my head, this particularly sort of rhythm,” he says. “I thought I’ll try and pop into my studio and waste some time putting it down. Didn’t turn out to be a waste of time. But perhaps the key decision he made, with a nudge from Samson, was hiring Charlie Andrew, a producer best known for his work with the modern British band alt-J, to oversee the album in the studio. Andrew, who is in his early 40s, is roughly half the age of the 78-year-old Gilmour, and that worked perfectly for what Gilmour wanted, he says.
Andrew brought along drummer Adam Betts, bassist Tom Herbert, and keyboardist Rob Gentry. Gilmour, who during the pandemic lockdowns, did regular livestream performances as the Von Trapped Family with his wife and kids, recruited his daughter Romany to sing and play harp. “I’m concentrating more on songs that I essentially was the driving force behind writing the music,” he says of the Pink Floyd catalog from which he’s often performed such songs as “Comfortably Numb,” “Shine On You Crazy Diamond ,” and “Wish You Were Here” on past outings.
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