Album Review: Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?
Never exactly a cheeky chappy during his decades fronting Pink Floyd, on his first record in 25 years Roger Waters is straight-up incandescent. He lashes out at the weaknesses in the democratic system that swept a “nincompoop” into the White House and blames human-kind in general for the decline in the standards of our leaders (we are, after all, the ones voting them into power).
But if the record’s anger and tendency towards diatribe suggest a Twitter rant extended over 75 minutes, there is still lots to delight Floyd fans. With Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich behind the sound desk, Waters conjures a stoic grandeur instantly familiar to anyone raised on Dark Side of the Moon and, in particular, The Wall — a project likewise obsessed with inter-generational tension and political incompetence.
