Track listing
1. One Of These Days
2. Pillow Of Winds, A
3. Fearless
4. San Tropez
5. Seamus
6. Echoes

Details
Playing time: 46 min.
Producer: Pink Floyd
Distributor: n/a
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: AAD

Album notes
MEDDLE was the first album to hint at the musical identity that would define Pink Floyd in the mid to late '70s. Whereas prior releases like UMMAGUMMA and ATOM HEART MOTHER announced the presence of new singer/guitarist/songwriter David Gilmour, MEDDLE represents the band's Gilmour-influenced evolution toward a sleek, epic, spacey sound. In "Echoes," an ambitious 23-minute soundscape, the pinging of a synthesizer greets the listener before Gilmour's warm, open guitar and gentle crooning gives way to a repetitious, workmanlike rhythm. From here, the music fades into an abyss of whale calls and eerie sonic reverberations.
Elsewhere, Floyd dabbles with straightforward cocktail-hour jazz ("San Tropez") and a twisted slow blues ("Seamus"). But it is "One Of These Days," MEDDLE's opening track and lone radio staple, that truly previews things to come. Roger Waters's bass, played through a Binson echo unit, establishes the song's manically hypnotic groove, as Richard Wright's synthesizer bursts in and out, Nick Mason's off-kilter drum fills get tossed around, and Gilmour's guitar dive-bombs through it all. These varied sound effects, packaged in a song that clocked in at less than six minutes, were a precedent for the masterpiece that was two years away: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.

Editorial reviews
3 Stars - Good - ...The four were at their most collectively prolific at this time...
Q (10/01/1994)

...not only confirms lead guitarist David Gilmour's emergence as a real shaping force with the group, it states forcefully and accurately that the group is well into the growth track again...
Rolling Stone (01/06/1972)

...not only confirms lead guitarist David Gilmour's emergence as a real shaping force with the group, it states forcefully and accurately that the group is well into the growth track again...Q (10/94, p.137) - 3 Stars - Good - ...The four were at their most collectively prolific at this time...
Rolling Stone (01/06/1972)