Album Review: David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock

"Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way," Gilmour's former Pink Floyd band-mate Roger Waters once wrote, and there are heavy doses of it here on this distinctly personal-sounding affair.

With the recent passing of former colleague Richard Wright no doubt in mind, Rattle That Lock is a bluesy prog-rock tome, laden with slow elegies and many excellent slow-burning guitar solos in that instantly recognisable Gilmour style. It's easy to be cynical about an aging rocker lamenting the fading light, but this is a convincingly heartfelt achievement.