Take your Dark Side of the Moon, your The Wall, your Wish You Were Here (your Division Bell?)! This is my Pink Floyd of choice, an album that is at once as whimsical as the Beatles' brighter moments while flowing with a darker undercurrent like all the subtleties also within the Beatles' brighter moments. But it's as tightly played and constructed as the aforementioned Pink Floyd masterpieces, keeping it all together. Strangely, it's haunting and smile-inducing at the same time, whether Syd Barrett is singing about gnomes named Grimble Gromble. Deep in the rabbit hole of Barrett's constructed world, there's clanging, echo, sound effects... and the loneliness of madness, colored by beauty and childhood.
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