Pink Floyd will release The Endless River, their first album in 20 years, on November 10, but you can hear the advance track, "Louder Than Words," here.
"Louder Than Words" is the only song on the album that features vocals. The album is partially built from leftover recordings made for Pink Floyd's previous album, 1994's The Division Bell.
David Gilmour has said that The Endless River will be the band's last. In an interview with BBC Music, Gilmour said, "Well, Rick [Wright] is gone. This is the last thing that’ll be out from us."
Keyboardist Richard Wright passed away in 2008, and this album is a tribute to him. Wright co-founded Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, and Nick Mason.
Gilmour told the BBC, "He has been underestimated by the public, by the media and by us at times I hate to say. I didn’t necessarily always give him his proper due. People have very different attitudes to the way they work and we can become very judgmental and think someone is not quite pulling his weight enough, without realising that theirs is a different weight to pull."
We also learned this week that professor Stephen Hawking will make another appearance on The Endless River. You may recall that on the 1994 song "Keep Talking," Hawking's computerised voice begins by saying: "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination."
-Spencer