David Gilmour said last year that his next album might come sooner than later. Speaking to Guitar Player in 2024 for the release of Luck and Strange, his first solo work in nine yearsm the former Pink Floyd guitarist said he hoped to ride the momentum of that album's sessions into his next set of songs.
"My intention is to gather some of these people together and get back and start working on something else in the new year," he said. "What you want is a few things to get started with and hope it all starts flowing, and that’s what I’m hoping will happen."
Now, he’s said the record’s successor can be expected “within the next year or two.”
“I’m slowly building up towards a new album, and I have quite a bit of material that is in some sort of formative stage,” he tells Rolling Stone. “That’s what’s keeping me busy at the moment.”
“It’s always my intention to be a bit quicker [regarding the gaps between his solo albums], and I suspect this one will be a bit quicker. But you never can tell. Within the next year or two.”
Luck and Strange, a record Gilmour called his best work since The Dark Side of the Moon, ended a nine-year dry stretch following 2015’s Rattle That Lock. On the press trail for Luck and Strange last year, he stated that he had already amassed “a trove” of new ideas for what would be his sixth solo LP.
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“There’s a consistency to what we’ve just done with this album now,” he says. “We’ve taken things further. I’ve got a trove of stuff already… Bits and pieces of songs, some of which I rather like.”
And he’ll certainly have fewer distractions stopping him from getting them over the line, having confirmed last year that Pink Floyd is well and truly over. Their last show was at Live Aid 2005.
“I put the whole Pink Floyd thing to bed many, many years ago,” he told Guitar Player. “I mean, it’s impossible to go back there without Rick [Wright, their late keyboardist], and I wouldn’t want to. It’s all done. I’m in this selfishly lucky position of having more than enough money and having had more than enough fame. I just don’t need that stuff these days.”
However, those comments also underscore the fact that he is in no need to rush his writing process. Fans will be wise to not hold their breath.
Gilmour had played a small number of shows to support Luck and Strange, and the first stop of the tour, at Circus Maximus, an ancient Roman chariot-racing stadium in Rome, Italy, was captured for a new concert film. The slightly unimaginatively titled Live at the Circus Maximus will be released on September 17.
Exactly a month later, the live album, The Luck And Strange Concerts, will follow in its wake. The album features 23 songs from shows across the tour, which included a five-night stop at Madison Square Garden, and an impressive recovery from a guitar strap break mid-solo.
Whether he will tour its follow-up is to be seen. If he does, it will be on a similar scale.
“I’m afraid I will not be schlepping around all the cities of America, South America, Europe, and the rest of the world,” he relays. “That’s for the young folk.”
Last year, Gilmour commented on the “amazing” coincidences that saw some fans theorize that Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz are narratively linked, and, in January, he was left wondering “how the hell did I actually do that?” as he looked back on his finest Pink Floyd guitar solo.
