I’m talking about stuff like 1969’s soundtrack to French cinema auteur Barbet Schroeder’s drug culture drama More, which was the group’s first proper recording without founding member Syd Barrett and also the one which contains the band’s heaviest cut ever, “The Nile Song”. Discovery should rather be construed as a means to reacquaint yourselves with the Floyd albums you may have overlooked down the line.
However, one should not look to this latest revamp of one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most treasured collected works as a better way to experience old favorites like A Saucerful of Secrets, Ummagumma, Meddle and Animals, which if you already hold dear as the apex of the Pink canon you will concur even more so upon listening to these remasters.
But unlike its predecessors, 1992’s Shine On and 2007’s Oh By The Way, the 14-disc Discovery box set, containing every Floyd LP from 1967’s acid pop masterpiece Piper At The Gates of Dawn to 1994’s middling, borderline MOR swan song The Division Bell, finds these treasured records remastered with a punch and clarity its predecessors never possessed, thanks the meticulous work of longtime group collaborators James Guthrie and Andy Jackson. For the third time in almost twenty years, the Pink Floyd catalog receives the reissue treatment as part of EMI’s extensive campaign that includes a new greatest hits package and expansive, multi-disc collections of the English psych pioneers’ three most well-known albums- Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall.
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