Review of David Gilmour : Smile
2006 UK 2-track CD single. Includes the album version of 'Smile', the 2nd single to be taken from his critically acclaimed solo album 'On An Island' alongside the first ever commercial release of 'Island Jam' a track that briefly appeared on his website.

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Your latest reviews - David Gilmour : An Album of Sheer Beauty, Elegant and Ferocious
David Gilmour's voice and guitar added the final perfect component to The Wall, and those songs and melodies have become a part of rock history. In 1984, he quietly and effortlessly released the only album I have ever heard quite matching The Wall's melodic space-blues, and it remains an enigma. You can call it "too commercial" because "Blue Light" has the horns and was not the best choice for lead single. You can wander in its aural landscape and say Dave was wise to largely abandon any sci-fi meandering, and produce an overall sound blending raw rock and non-boring adult-contemporary wistfulness. I have always just considered this set of songs a gift from on high. If only Dave could have made money without restarting Pink Floyd with co-writers. In fact, a Pink Floyd from a "pure Dave" perspective as seen on About Face would have been much better than the Floyd of Momentary Lapse/Division Bell era. You wonder if the man really feels he's done the music he's wanted to. We're about to find out what he would have followed up AF with, in "On an Island" in March. Hear this album and you will agree, 22 years is not such a long wait when this baby never gets old. Let's get metaphysical!