IanMunro, I agree with you there, except I think Animals is great – the first Floyd I ever heard and I loved it right away. obscured by Clouds is an overlooked gem.
I saw them at Wembley in the Momentary Lapse tour and I thought they’d gone stodgy. For me, as others have remarked, the brilliance is in Gilmour’s restraint as a guitarist. every note has a purpose. hearing him wring out endless variations on his solos on Comfortably Numb, for example, was a pity. also their sax player had the crappest mullet ever.
They weren’t the same without Waters, either.
I won’t be buying the new album.