


Waters alluded to the album and its subject matter in a February interview with Rolling Stone, where he said it grew out of “a poem I wrote in 2008 before that election, and it was me musing on the idea that possibly, if Obama won, things would get better.” He claimed that his upcoming Us+Them tour in support of the album would “be an exercise in resistance, not just to Trump, but to all the despots, dictators, thieves and ne’er-do-wells all over the world.” Waters has also recently projected Trump’s visage at the Desert Trip festival when playing “Pigs (Three Different Ones)” from Pink Floyd’s Animals.Ĭheck out that performance, the teaser preview for the album, and its newly announced full track list below. Bird In A Gale is a moody song by Roger Waters with a tempo of 164 BPM. Godrich also is credited with contributing “arrangement, sound collages, keyboards, guitar” to the album. Dalszöveg bl BIRD IN A GALE tól tl Roger Waters: Are you blowing like a bird in a gale, Does the pain of your loss seep into your feathers like rain, Do. Listen to Bird In a Gale by Roger Waters, 3288 Shazams, featuring on Nigel Godrich: Behind the Boards, and Roger Waters Essentials Apple Music playlists. It’s also just been announced that the project is being produced by Radiohead/Beck producer de jour Nigel Godrich, an unexpected pairing but one which seems musically logical.

A politically-charged album by Roger Waters, you say? Man, who would have thunk it? But yes, the former Pink Floyd frontman’s new LP–his first since 1992’s Amused to Death–is called Is This the Life We Really Want? According to a new press release, it will contain “unflinching commentary on the modern world and uncertain times.”
