Meddle by Pink Floyd

Meddle, Pink Floyd's sixth album, came out on Harvest in 1971, pieced together between tours from January to August at a string of London studios, EMI's Abbey Road rooms and Morgan among them. The band went in with no songs and no plan, so they started running odd experiments, and out of those grew "Echoes", a long, drifting voyage that points the group somewhere new.

David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason sound like a band shaking off the Syd Barrett years and feeling out what comes next, with Waters not yet running the show, and the menacing rumble of "One of These Days" proves they could still bare their teeth. Hipgnosis did the sleeve, an ear under water, which Storm Thorgerson himself never liked. The critics were kind and Britain bought it; in America, Capitol's half-hearted push left it sitting in the racks.

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