The Verse Universe

Wish You Here is quite possible the most moving Pink Floyd album in my heart, though their first album with Sydney Barret warms me to a style of psychedelic rock that went beyond the more surface level scratches instrumentalist Paul McCartney was making with his own quasi-concept album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band.

The band is more reflective over their downfallen lead guitarist in what is what I would consider more blues inspired rock than actual progressive music, though their reliance on a saxophone inspires one to listen to the album Moondance by musician Van Morrison, as Frank Zappa’s and Miles Davis’s jazz fusion slowly became a more alternative approach to segregated music.

Pink Floyd may seem pompous in their approach to cinematic storytelling through an auditorial format, but their hearts remain firmly planted with a composer’s sensibility, allowing a more improvised release of artistic expression to be sifted through what are basic guitar chord progressions and simplified time signatures….