When David Gilmour was contemplating producers for his fifth solo album, a well-known identify got here to thoughts.
“We had considered Rick Rubin,” the previous Pink Floyd rocker admitted throughout an look on The Rockonteurs podcast, including that “quite a lot of different individuals who’ve been round for fairly some time” had been additionally mentioned. Rubin, in fact, has a resume that includes a number of the greatest names within the historical past of rock. But Gilmour finally determined he needed to go in a unique course, as an alternative enlisting a younger rising star who may supply a recent perspective.
“My beautiful spouse, Polly, got here up with the notion of who was youthful and scorching within the manufacturing world,” he defined. That concept led him to Charlie Andrew, finest recognized for his work with U.Ok. indie rock teams Alt-J, Wolf Alice and London Grammar.
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“There was a recent factor in these data that actually appealed to me,” Gilmour continued, including that he initially reached out to Andrew through Instagram. “He got here down and listened to the early formation of the demos, which a few of them weren’t that early, however they had been definitely unfinished. And he requested some pertinent questions after which stated he’d like to work.”
Andrew Helped Gilmour Discover a ‘Totally different Sound’
The result’s Luck and Unusual, an album Gilmour believes is his finest work since Pink Floyd’s The Darkish Aspect of the Moon. Stylistically, the rocker notes Andrew was in a position to assist him seize “one thing totally different” than what older producers would have finished.
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“There’s much less of a crystal clear purity,” he defined. “And the cohesiveness of the entire album, to me, I discover fairly extraordinary. They’ve put all these sounds collectively and each observe ties in in a sure approach. It is a totally different sound. I do not suppose it is any much less sensible or any much less pure.”
A few of Andrew’s selections – like “distorted parts” and “out of tune parts” – initially made Gilmour shake his head, just for him to quickly grasp the concept. “There are some issues which had been simply, a kind of moments you are sitting there and going, ‘What? What the hell?’” the rocker admitted. “And the following day you are going, ‘Yeah.’”
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