LP – Standard Edition Black vinyl in Gatefold sleeve and booklet with photography and design by Anton Corbijn.

LONDON 24th April 2024 David Gilmour today announced his new album Luck and Strange, to be released on 6th September on Sony Music. The first track from the album, The Pipers Call, will be released this Thursday, 25th April, following a world exclusive first play on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show.

Luck and Strange was recorded over five months in Brighton and London and is Gilmours first album of new material in nine years. The record was produced by David and Charlie Andrew, best known for his work with ALT-J and Marika Hackman. Of this new working relationship, David says, We invited Charlie to the house, so he came and listened to some demos, and said things like, Well, why does there have to be a guitar solo there? and Do they all fade out? Cant some of them just end?. He has a wonderful lack of knowledge or respect for this past of mine. Hes very direct and not in any way overawed, and I love that. That is just so good for me because the last thing you want is people just deferring to you.

The majority of the albums lyrics have been composed by Polly Samson, Gilmours co-writer and collaborator for the past thirty years. Samson says of the lyrical themes covered on Luck and Strange, Its written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant. Gilmour elaborates, We spent a load of time during and after lockdown talking about and thinking about those kind of things. Polly has also found the experience of working with Charlie Andrew liberating, He wants to know what the songs are about, he wants everyone whos playing on them to have the ideas that are in the lyric informing their playing. I have particularly loved it for that reason.

The album features eight new tracks along with a beautiful reworking of The Montgolfier Brothers Between Two Points and has artwork and photography by the renowned artist Anton Corbijn.

Musicians contributing to the record include Guy Pratt & Tom Herbert on bass, Adam Betts, Steve Gadd and Steve DiStanislao on drums, Rob Gentry & Roger Eno on keyboards with string and choral arrangements by Will Gardner. The title track also features the late Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright, recorded in 2007 at a jam in a barn at Davids house.

Some contributions emerged from the live streams that Gilmour and family performed to a global audience during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021; Romany Gilmour sings, plays the harp and appears on lead vocals on Between Two Points. Gabriel Gilmour also sings backing vocals.

The albums cover image, photographed and designed by Anton Corbijn, is inspired by a lyric written by Charlie Gilmour for the albums final song Scattered. Of working with his family on Luck and Strange, David says, Polly and I have been writing together for over thirty years and the Von Trapped live streams showed the great blend of Romanys voice and harp-playing and that led us into a feeling of discarding some of the past that Id felt bound to and that I could throw those rules out and do whatever I felt like doing, and that has been such a joy.

Luck and Strange will be released on 6th September on Sony Music.

Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Black Cat (Gilmour)
2. Luck and Strange (Gilmour/Samson)
3. The Pipers Call (Gilmour/Samson)
4. A Single Spark (Gilmour/ Samson)
5. Vita Brevis (Gilmour)
6. Between Two Points (Tranmer/Quigley)

Side 2
1. Dark and Velvet Nights (Gilmour/Samson)
2. Sings (Gilmour/Samson)
3. Scattered (D. Gilmour/Samson/C. Gilmour)