Pink Floyd - The Final Cut [24bit FLAC] vinyl

  Genre: Rock
  Style: Art Rock, Progressive
  Source: CBS SONY LP 24AP 2410 Original Pressing (Japan)
  Codec: FLAC
  Bit Rate: ~ 2,500 kbps
  Bit Depth: 24
  Sample Rate: 96 kHz
 
  A1 The Post War Dream
  A2 Your Possible Pasts
  A3 One of the Few
  A4 The Hero's Return
  A5 The Gunner's Dream
  A6 Paranoid Eyes

  B1 Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
  B2 The Fletcher Memorial Home
  B3 Southampton Dock
  B4 The Final Cut
  B5 Not Now John
  B6 Two Suns in the Sunset

  Rip by Dr. Robert

  CBS/Sony Records 25AP 2410
  Original Japanese Pressing
  24-bit / 96kHz Vinyl

  Nitty Gritty RCM 1.5
  Technics SL-1200MK2 Turntable with KAB Fluid Damping
  Ortofon 2M Black cartridge
  Pro-Ject Tube Box SE II Preamp
  Tascam US-144 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
  Bias Peak LE 6 recording software
  iZotope RX Advanced 1.21 for redbook conversion
  Trader's Little Helper for redbook SBE correction

  The Final Cut extends the autobiography of The Wall, concentrating on Roger Waters' pain when his father died in World War II. Waters spins this off into a treatise on the futility of war, concentrating on the Falkland Islands, setting his blistering condemnations and scathing anger to impossibly subdued music that demands full attention. This is more like a novel than a record, requiring total concentration since shifts in dynamics, orchestration, and instrumentation are used as effect. This means that while this has the texture of classic Pink Floyd, somewhere between the brooding sections of The Wall and the monolithic menace of Animals, there are no songs or hooks to make these radio favorites. The even bent of the arrangements, where the music is used as texture, not music, means that The Final Cut purposely alienates all but the dedicated listener. Several of those listeners maintain that this is among Pink Floyd's finest efforts, and it certainly is an achievement of some kind -- there's not only no other Floyd album quite like it, it has no close comparisons to anybody else's work (apart from Waters' own The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, yet that had a stronger musical core). That doesn't make this easier to embrace, of course, and it's damn near impenetrable in many respects, but with its anger, emphasis on lyrics, and sonic textures, it's clear that it's the album that Waters intended it to be. And it's equally clear that Pink Floyd couldn't have continued in this direction -- Waters had no interest in a group setting anymore, as this record, which is hardly a Floyd album in many respects, illustrates. Distinctive, to be sure, but not easy to love and, depending on your view, not even that easy to admire.