The Endless River
by Pink Floyd
  • Record Label: Columbia
  • Release Date: Nov 10, 2014
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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 139 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 98 out of 139
  2. Mixed: 27 out of 139
  3. Negative: 14 out of 139
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  1. sampom
    Nov 10, 2014
    5
    I feel i do not know music technicaly enough to write a deep review about this album. I respect and love Pink Floyd deeply. But this one just feels like David Gilmour knew that this material would have been published someday. So rather than giving it away postumus, he decided to do an album with it. It just feels like random acoustics B-sides from another era that do not fit with theI feel i do not know music technicaly enough to write a deep review about this album. I respect and love Pink Floyd deeply. But this one just feels like David Gilmour knew that this material would have been published someday. So rather than giving it away postumus, he decided to do an album with it. It just feels like random acoustics B-sides from another era that do not fit with the quality and concepts that made Pink Floyd what they are today. Division Bell: Extended Session would have been a more proper title i guess. It's just as if David Gilmour had toss a pile of pink floyd partition on the floor and picked them back up in a random order.… Expand
  2. dierregi
    Nov 10, 2014
    6
    This is a rather melancholic CD, as it was to be expected. Mostly instrumental, it plays like a belated homage to Richard Wright. It also plays very well as ambient music of top quality. Nevertheless, those who expect something different from Pink Floyd music will be disappointed.

    But then again, why should PF sound not like PF? One of the greatest bands of the 70s, they proved    This is a rather melancholic CD, as it was to be expected. Mostly instrumental, it plays like a belated homage to Richard Wright. It also plays very well as ambient music of top quality. Nevertheless, those who expect something different from Pink Floyd music will be disappointed.

    But then again, why should PF sound not like PF? One of the greatest bands of the 70s, they proved themselves well beyond the influence of overrated Syd Barret. Their masterpiece trilogy “Meddle-Dark side-Wish you were here” defined sidereal, melancholic music for generations.

    While those records sounded full of energy – if not optimistic – this one is more subdued, fragmented and mainly saying goodbye, hoping to meet somewhere sailing of that endless river.    … Expand
  3. Panchogul
    Sep 2, 2020
    6
    No llega ni a la sombra de los mejores trabajos musicales de esta legendaria banda, pero es increíble que después de tantísimos años sin sacar nada nuevo, vuelvan a estrenar música volviendo a ser bastante exitoso. Las nuevas generaciones no están preparadas para deleitar sus oídos con esto aún. para
  4. JohnnyStarfish
    Dec 27, 2014
    4
    I painstakingly sat through Pink Floyd's latest and more-likely-than-not final effort, "The Endless River" and I am sorely disappointed. No, it's not the synth-keyboards (if that were the case I would never listen to Pink Floyd in the first place)... No.. what it is is a slap in the face; a violent kick in the nuts to hear an album with a total of 18 songs, 1 of which is not anI painstakingly sat through Pink Floyd's latest and more-likely-than-not final effort, "The Endless River" and I am sorely disappointed. No, it's not the synth-keyboards (if that were the case I would never listen to Pink Floyd in the first place)... No.. what it is is a slap in the face; a violent kick in the nuts to hear an album with a total of 18 songs, 1 of which is not an instrumental and contains distinguishable lyrics... This album, if one could muster to call it one, is nothing but instrumental leftover from "The Division Bell" and an ode to the keyboard styles of the late Richard Wright (the ode to Wright one aspect I give this lackluster album a thumbs up for). The album's closing track "Louder than Words", the one and only song with distinguishable lyrics, is further more a kick to the groin; as David Gilmour sings "It's louder than words / this thing that we do..." Well David Gilmour, I would tend to agree in some respect that you and Nick Mason are icons but simply slapping your names to an album and calling it 'Pink Floyd' is bull! Roger Waters is probably scoffing at this tired piece of work; this "endless" nonsense! Pink Floyd's one saving grace in "The Endless River"; outside of their past days being their better, is that even with 17 songs of synth-keyboard and faint guitar wailing and some faint resemblances in sound to what made Floyd great at one juncture in time is that this album is probably STILL better quality than half the stuff on the radio today.. The album leaves MUCH to be desired and leaves the Floyd listener quench for something more... the faint resemblances to riffs you thought you heard before are very much alive in certain tracks but all and all outside of the album's closing track, (which by the time I heard I was too angry to give much thought to) "The Endless River" is an endless dribble; leaving endless thoughts on my part on what could have been and makes me want to slam the door on the career of the band that is/was Pink Floyd, hitting their old wrinkled behinds on their way out...… Expand
  5. Danm95VFF
    Apr 20, 2016
    6
    The Endless River is essentially nothing more or less than a collection of instrumental musical passages composed during the Division Bell era. There are quite a few intriguing very Floyd-esque ideas here, but it was never going to be considered a classic by any degree, considering it's the remnants of ideas for a generally poorly-recieved album that did not feature chief songwriter/bandThe Endless River is essentially nothing more or less than a collection of instrumental musical passages composed during the Division Bell era. There are quite a few intriguing very Floyd-esque ideas here, but it was never going to be considered a classic by any degree, considering it's the remnants of ideas for a generally poorly-recieved album that did not feature chief songwriter/band leader Roger Waters. Rather, it serves as more of a send-off to the late Richard Wright, and a more emotional, self-aware send off than The Division Bell. Louder Than Words, the closing track and the only one to be fully fleshed out and have vocals, wraps things up rather nicely.… Expand
  6. MentalMetalGuy
    Sep 20, 2016
    4
    There was no need for this...I mean it was never going to be their next "big album", but these were clearly leftover, which are nice ambient music, for the background, but gives absolutely no reason to purchase this.

    Such an in-substantial album, with no real impact, but at least its calming while listening.
  7. Opinionpts
    Apr 26, 2020
    6
    pink floyd did much better albuns. .
  8. Thegp
    May 3, 2020
    4
    God this is dull. So so dull. What’s it dying out for is some insightful lyrics and tunes... Floyd have plenty of moving mood music in their past. This isn’t it

    even the one sung song “Louder than words” is a pompous dirge, marred by Mrs Gilmours awful line about **** and fight”
  9. kot72begemot
    Aug 11, 2022
    6
    Граф де Ла Фер (Атос) : "Для David Gilmour это слишком много, а для Pink Floyd слишком мало"

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58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 24
  3. Negative: 4 out of 24
  1. Classic Rock Magazine
    Dec 16, 2014
    50
    Overall, too much of The Endless River is suffocated by prog-normative dreariness and a high, conventional varnish. [Dec 2014, p.98]
  2. PopMatters
    Nov 26, 2014
    60
    The problems with The Endless River are not so much what we are given, but what is left out. Without the vocals, something is very clearly missing and the listener is left wanting more.
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  3. Under The Radar
    Nov 25, 2014
    35
    The Endless River belongs not in the pantheon of the great Pink Floyd, but in a hotel elevator.
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