(2022) Roger Waters - The Lockdown Sessions [FLAC] [DarkAngie]

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(2022) Roger Waters - The Lockdown Sessions [FLAC] [DarkAngie]

    Roger Waters - The Lockdown Sessions (2022) Review: A strange sub-genre of legendary musicians shaking their first at global precautions has tainted the legacy of a few. Whether it is Van Morrison drooling under a self-placed boot or Eric Clapton shaking the blues down, lockdown marked a moment of elder statesman head loss. But for Roger Waters, it was a chance to exorcise old songs. The Lockdown Sessions are not the ramblings of a pensioner feeling hard done by indoors but the ravings of a younger artist being revisited, decades later. A fascinating selection for The Lockdown Sessions keeps it fresh. From Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut to Waters’ solo effort, Amused to Death, the range of material is peculiar. Isolating Waters with this “one man and his guitar” style is the best thing he has done this decade. Even then, The Lockdown Sessions is a bit short on stellar material. Mother is a long and winding experience where backing vocalists and the echoes of an empty room are meant to elicit an extra punch of emotion. Waters cannot elevate the material to much more than saddened and reflective. A shame, too, since his vocal range, the drop in octave and the slower tempo, are fine tools for his arsenal. Flickers of mistrust boom through Mother, a conversation with one participant. Waters is far from the firing line but here he sings for the everyman and, to that extent, becomes one himself. Or at least that is the intent. Whether The Lockdown Sessions truly gets to this soppy core is up in the air. Part of it feels genuine. Waters returns to moments from his past which were re-engaged by isolation. That much is clear, and it makes all the difference. There is still room for roaring motorways and the occasional flicker of life outside the dark room The Lockdown Sessions is created from. Waters is a storyteller first, musician second. Two Suns in the Sunset considers these roles and with just a few spots of instrumental fury, Waters continues to seek justification for a song ignored by Pink Floyd at the time. Here, it sounds fractured yet beautiful. Concept is far more interesting to Waters than any other detail, and The Lockdown Sessions brings him closer to realising this theory. Where Vera may be a steady bit of instrumental work, the real high for The Lockdown Sessions is the staggering approach taken on The Gunner’s Dream. Frailty yet power in the face of age. Waters sounds perfect here. In this quarantine comes a comfort. This return to materials of old, the cultural cornerstones heard on The Bravery of Being Out of Range, marks a gut-punch feeling. But he just had to derail it. Modern punches were bound to come through. No artist revisits their earlier works for the sake of it. Guided bombs and the war in Ukraine raging on is the new push for The Bravery of Being Out of Range which takes its title to the literal extent before the crashes of thunder and lightning open a relatively tame closer, Comfortably Numb 2022. All in, Waters does better than most when it comes to retroactively fitting messages to songs of a different cause. The Lockdown Sessions is an intense piece of work, but the signs of Dark Side of the Moon: Redux, are there to hear, in their earliest forms. Chilling. — cultfollowing.co.uk     Track List: 01 - Mother 02 - Two Suns In the Sunset 03 - Vera 04 - The Gunner's Dream 05 - The Bravery of Being Out of Range 06 - Comfortably Numb 2022 Media Report: Genre: prog-rock Origin: UK Format: FLAC Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec Bit rate mode: Variable Channel(s): 2 channels Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz Bit depth: 16 bits Compression mode: Lossless Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26) Note: If you like the music, support the artist.