David Gilmour made a splash early in the promotional cycle for the upcoming Luck and Strange when he described it as the very best album he is made since Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. He’s backing away from that now, although a normal reticence about these years stays.

“It’s a flip statement, really,” Gilmour tells Rolling Stone. “I mean, it’s not like Dark Side the Moon is even my favorite album. I think I prefer Wish You Were Here. Anyway, it feels to me like it’s the best thing I’ve done in more or less my living memory, because some of those things feel like they were someone else, back in those eons ago. I was in my 30s when Roger left our little pop group and I’m 78.”

Luck and Strange is due on Sept. 6, and was initially superior by “The Piper’s Call” in April. More singles and confirmed live performance dates adopted.

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Gilmour hasn’t launched a solo album since 2015’s Top 5 worldwide hit Rattle That Lock – and hasn’t performed a U.S. live performance in eight years. But Gilmour turned a number of extra heads when he indicated an unwillingness to return to estranged bandmate Roger Waters-era songs throughout these upcoming reveals.

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Gilmour additionally appears to be extra open now to together with Pink Floyd songs in his solo setlist – although one observe in specific apparently will not be performed. “I think I will be doing one or two things from that time, but it just seems so long ago,” Gilmour says. “I know people love them, and I love playing them. I’ll be doing ‘Wish You Were Here’ – of course, I will – and some of the things that started with me anyway.”

So, perennial favourite “Comfortably Numb” will “quite likely” seem however “I don’t think I’ll be doing ‘Money,’” Gilmour admits earlier than including: “If that’s your reason for coming …”

As lately because the 2000s, Gilmour and Waters appeared to have known as a truce. The classic-era lineup reunited for 2005’s Live 8 live shows, then Gilmour and Waters made a few further reside appearances collectively in 2010. Gilmour is not keen to debate what subsequently went fallacious.

“It’s boring. It’s over,” he argues. “As I said before, he left our pop group when I was in my 30s, and I’m a pretty old chap now – and the relevance of it is not there. I don’t really know his work since. So I don’t have anything to say on the topic.”

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