The trend is nothing new - jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt released an album called Previously Unreleased Recordings in 1960 - but recent years have seen a lot of it. Pink Floyd isn’t alone when it comes to repackaging leftovers for later release. It was also, at one time, under consideration to score a film by The Matrix filmmakers Andy and Lana Wachowski. Aside from continuing where Division Bell left off, the album has a few other reasons for existing - chief among them to pay tribute to keyboard player Rick Wright, who died in 2008. But some critics suggest that what the band calls “continuum” is just a nice way of describing unimaginative recycling of old material. That album was 1994’s Division Bell, and Endless River draws its name from the final lyrics on its final track in order, as the band said in an interview with BBC, “to show some sort of continuum” between the two projects.
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