Pink Floyd fans say one recent solo track has a ‘painful nostalgia’ to it

A song featured on a recent album by a Pink Floyd member has a “painful nostalgia” to it, according to fans.

Listeners believe a song featured on Luck and Strange, the latest album from David Gilmour, is one of the best from any of the band’s solo careers. A fan praised the song on the r/DavidGilmour subreddit, with one person saying there’s a “painful, nostalgic feeling” running through the album. That feeling is not just present on A Single Spark but the rest of the album too, with many fans believing the songs featured are consistently heartbreaking. A post to the fan forum reads: “Absolutely love this song. Does anybody else feel weird after listening to it? Like almost a painful, nostalgic feeling.”

Others have agreed with A Single Spark being a song with some heartbreaking moments to it, but some believe the whole album has that feeling. One listener wrote: “This song and the whole album encapsulate the whole bittersweet experience of savouring life and facing mortality so well.”

Another replied: “Agree 100%. If you want to force a ‘concept’ on the album, that’s it. A man completely content. He has the love of his wife and children and nothing to prove. He has climbed the mountains and fought the battles.

“Nostalgic for those bygone days ,but he has everything he could possibly want except the one thing that can’t be bought, time. (Also a recurring Pink Floyd theme.)” A third added: “Scattered feels that way to me. And that solo hammering home the point, building in emotion. OMG. And the end of the song. What a great album.”

Others have since heaped praise onto A Single Spark, with one listener considering the song a “masterpiece” from Gilmour’s discography. Another added: “There’s a point in the solo where he really makes the guitar sing, about the 4:18 mark.

“That solo is the best you’ll ever hear from Gilmour. This whole album is brilliant. Some of his best playing ever, to be honest.” A third wrote: “Among my favourites as well. I think I know what you mean about the feeling. It has a vulnerable, melancholy feel to it.”

Fans may not have long to wait to hear more new material from Gilmour, with the veteran guitarist suggesting he is currently in the process of recording a follow-up to Luck and Strange. A tour may follow too, with the songwriter in the studio and hoping to have sessions booked with other musicians in the next few months.

He said: “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. That’s what’s keeping me busy at the moment. I do it pretty much all myself and I work on Pro Tools. I don’t play the drums all that well, and I do that with machinery in the modern tradition.

“And I put things together so that I can fiddle around for months, adding little bits, taking things away till I think that I’ve got something close to where I want it. I then can take it into a studio with a bunch of people and know exactly what I want to do and how I want to get it done and present it to these people for their input.”