Obscured by Clouds was Pink Floyd's last album before the immensely successful, Dark Side of the Moon. Its a soundtrack record to the Barbet Schroeder film, La Vallee-- a trippy little film about an upper-class French woman who gets knocked down a few notches when she gets lost in the primeval jungles of Papua New Guinea.
The movie is missable, but this soundtrack LP is tops!
Half the songs are instrumentals. Short, straight-forward rock'n'roll instrumentals, nothing too long or too weird or too proggy.
The songs with vocals are equally as accessible. David Gilmour's "Wot's...uh the Deal?" and "The Gold its in the..." are standouts. As is Roger Waters's "Free Four"-- in which he starts exploring some Daddy-issues and other dark motifs that would become a running theme throughout Pink Floyd's later, much more famous works.
I guess one of the best things you can say about this album is that it really doesn't sound like Pink Floyd at all.
RATING: 4.5 New Guinean cannibals out of a possible 5.
Came with up a cocktail to go with this one...
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1 jigger of Rhum Agricole,
Splash of Blue Curacao
A Few Drops of Goldschlager
Handful of ice
Shake vigorously and serve over a mountain of crushed ice in an old fashioned glass.
Garnish with a slice of lime, a dash of nutmeg and a twig of sugar cane.