For me, this vinyl support is miraculous and indescribable, as the artistic completeness is at its highest level... here there is no Syd, but there is the vital breath, the dedication, and the zeal of the imaginative, chimerical master from Cambridge: Roger Keith Barrett.
Ummagumma is chaos! Disorder, genius and unruliness, it’s a drunken, clear sound that dances light and confused towards infinity.
Not suitable for those who believe that music is just a simple melody to hum!
This is the first post-Barrett work, in which the band members do not deny the psychedelia of their predecessor, but do not refuse to experiment with new sounds.
David Gilmour manages to give the group a new sound that will characterize them for the rest of their career and make them a key band in the history of music.
"Ummagumma is chaos! Disorder, genius, and unruliness, it’s a drunken, clear sound that dances lightly and confusedly toward a light, toward infinity, toward itself, toward freedom!"
I am a great admirer of Pink Floyd, whom I consider the most important in Rock history, and I love almost all their works.
"Ummagumma is an album worth listening to, even though it is not easy to do so."
"The album’s gem... foreshadows the subsequent Pink Floyd sound."
You don’t know whether to choose the first or the second as better.
Once you’ve well understood and digested all that experimental phase, you don’t just put it on a shelf thinking you’ll dust it off sometime later.