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Roger Waters
- Record Label: Cooking Vinyl
- Release Date: Oct 6, 2023
- Summary: Roger Waters' reworking of Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side Of The Moon features lyrics from "Free Four" on the instrumental "Speak to Me".
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- Record Label: Cooking Vinyl
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 9
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Mixed: 4 out of 9
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Negative: 2 out of 9
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Oct 5, 2023This is an album that underlines the greatness of Dark Side, rather than challenges it.
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Oct 5, 2023Redux is well thought out, and it works. [Nov 2023, p.76]
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MojoOct 5, 2023The new focus on these songs' lyrics proves deeply powerful, a different and profound kind of high. Consequently, The Dark Side OF The Moon Redux is wholly valid, the unnerving, stirring adjunct Waters was aiming for. [Nov 2023, p.87]
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Oct 5, 2023The Dark Side of the Moon Redux doesn't offer uninterrupted talk but the stress is placed firmly on the words, to the point that "The Great Gig in the Sky" now doesn't float weightlessly: it's now about a letter Waters wrote to the assistant to Donald Hall when the poet was in his last days. It's a subtle change but it's a substantial one, turning Dark Side of the Moon into a voyage inward, not outward.
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Oct 6, 2023Fans may feel it’s more of a long slog than they remember, with the slower tempo stretching many of the songs beyond their natural length, and the spoken word passages lending a languorous quality that may induce drowsiness.
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Oct 10, 2023There’s a world where rerecording Dark Side of the Moon works, but this redux is too misguided, too indulgent, and too up Waters’ behind to take all that seriously.
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Jan 3, 2024The only merit to be found on this soulless revisionism is the production, which is at least serviceable. Outside of that, this is, to the surprise of no one, inferior to the original in every conceivable way.