Vinyl Record

Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds

Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds album cover

Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds on LP vinyl. A 1972 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

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Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1972 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Obscured By Clouds is Pink Floyd's 1972 soundtrack album for Barbet Schroeder's film La Vallee, but it has always stood as more than a side commission. Recorded quickly in France between the exploratory sprawl of Meddle and the global breakthrough of The Dark Side Of The Moon, the album catches the band in unusually concise form. The opening instrumental pair, Obscured by Clouds and When You're In, has a blunt motorik weight; Burning Bridges and Stay show the softer Wright-Gilmour emotional colour; Wot's... Uh the Deal is one of the group's most graceful pre-Dark Side songs; Free Four turns mortality and family shadow into a deceptively bright single. Because the record was tied to a film, it is often treated as peripheral, yet that very constraint gives it charm. In 1972, Pink Floyd were still testing how much atmosphere, melody, blues-rock and lyrical directness could coexist before the next album made the answer monumental.

Obscured By Clouds matters because it shows Pink Floyd in the last workshop stage before The Dark Side Of The Moon. The album's shorter songs and soundtrack origins reveal a practical, flexible version of the band, making the famous 1973 leap feel less sudden and more earned.

For collectors, Obscured By Clouds is the Floyd album that rewards looking between the canonical peaks. It is historically important as a 1972 bridge from Meddle to Dark Side, and musically valuable because its relaxed, song-based shape offers a different kind of intimacy from the band's major concept records.

Early-1970s art rock with soundtrack atmosphere, warm guitar lines, steady instrumental grooves, reflective vocals, pastoral melancholy and compact songs that still carry progressive-era space.

Recommended for: Pink Floyd collectors filling the Meddle-to-Dark Side bridge; Fans of understated 1970s soundtrack rock; Listeners drawn to Wot's... Uh the Deal and Free Four; Collectors who value overlooked catalogue records with real context.

What film is Obscured By Clouds connected to? The album was recorded as music for Barbet Schroeder's film La Vallee and released as a standalone Pink Floyd album in 1972. Where does Obscured By Clouds fall in Pink Floyd's catalogue? It comes after Meddle and before The Dark Side Of The Moon, making it an important transitional record. Which tracks are key on Obscured By Clouds? Obscured by Clouds, When You're In, Wot's... Uh the Deal, Free Four and Stay give the clearest picture of its soundtrack mood and concise songwriting.