Independent review

The second album of Pink Floyd, lovingly named in the USSR "Saucer of Secrets", presented to the listener the new guitarist David Gilmour and simultaneously designated the parting with Syd Barrett, who began to go deeper into himself under the influence of nervous exhaustion and various preparations. Syd's guitar sounds in two songs - Remember a Day and Jugband Blues. In the second he also noted himself with vocals, since he was also its author. The first side of the disc is simply magnificent, this is already a completely different PF than a year ago. This is a mature sound of progressive rock, here one can hear almost all elements that will be characteristic of the band on the most famous albums, let sometimes in an embryonic state. But the second side of the vinyl is slightly disappointing, actually mainly because of the 12-minute instrumental A Saucerful of Secrets. I truly consider that at the end of the 60s — beginning of the 70s the musicians did not embed any melodic ideas into such noisy things. Simply on the wave of demand for psychedelic and acid rock, everyone considered it their duty to support this very wave with one more portion of meaningless sounds. Further everything falls into its places and the album concludes on the level of the first side. Unfortunately, the noise experiments received a continuation on the triple Ummagumma, which to listen to in principle appears to be problematic. But after it, the developments of A saucerful revealed themselves in full measure on Meddle.

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