After 20 years of being out in the limelight, British rock band Pink Floyd is back with a new album to boot.
The band's new album titled, "The Endless River", will be hitting music stores on November 7, reports The Economic Times.
Whether or not the band still has the capability to take the world by storm with its latest album remains to be seen.
Lead singer-guitarist David Gilmour also announced that "The Endless River" will be the last album for Pink Floyd. He likewise dedicated the new album to the band's former keyboardist, Rick Wright, who passed away in 2008, notes The Economic Times.
A new album after a 20-year hiatus may already be surprising news to fans of the Pink Floyd band but what's even more surprising, the Inquistr reports that the famous scientist, Stephen Hawking, would be lending his "electronic voice" to the song, "Talkin' Hawkin," which is included in the album.
Using the artificial voice of the world's most celebrated theoretical physicists in a song is no longer new to Pink Floyd. The band also recorded the song "Keep Talking" in 1994 using samples of Hawking's synthesized voice from a television commercial on British TV.
The Band and its Albums
Formed in 1965 by four English students, namely Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Rick Wright, and Nick Mason, Pink Floyd revolutionized the music scene in the 1970s, cites The Economic Times.
Pink Floyd, which once redefined the term "psychedelic rock," reportedly describes its latest album as "a predominantly ambient and instrumental album."
The closing track, "Louder than Words," is the only song in the album with vocals. The song was written by Gilmour's wife, Polly Samson, The Economic Times notes.
"The Endless River" will be the third album of the band after Roger Walters left Pink Floyd in 1985. The band's previous two albums were "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" released in 1987, and "The Division Bell," that hit the music market in 1994.
The Economic Times also reports that the "The Endless River" used 20 hours of unreleased material that the band wrote and produced with Wright for Pink Floyd's last studio album in 1994 ("The Division Bell").
"Over the last year, we've added new parts, rerecorded others and generally harnessed studio technology to make a 21st century Pink Floyd album. With Rick gone, and with him the chance of ever doing it again, it feels right that these revisited and reworked tracks should be made available as part of our repertoire," explains Gilmour in the Inquistr report.