O 12º album de estúdio dos Pink Floyd editado originalmente em 1983 é o último album que inclui o membro fundador Roger Waters. 'The Final Cut' foi mais um grande sucesso global dos Pink Floyd. Durante a Guerra das Malvinas em plena era do Tatcherismo, este album conceptual anti-guerra explora os temas do patriotismo, perda de entes queridos e traição política.

• Pink Floyd 2016 Remasters
• Remasterizado a partir das Master Tapes Originais
• Vinil Audiófilo 180 Gramas
• Masterizado por James Guthrie e Joel Plante
• Corte do vinil por Bernie Grundman 
• Prensagem Europeia
• Reprodução do grafismo original
• Capa Gatefold

Os Pink Floyd, constituídos por Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Rick Wright e Nick Mason, entraram na cena musical em 1967, com o single de grande sucesso ‘Arnold Layne’.

Apesar da partida de Syd Barrett, a banda, que passou a incluir David Gilmour, gravou alguns dos discos mais inovadores e vanguardistas da época, culminando, em 1973, com um dos álbuns mais vendidos de sempre, ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’. Seguiram-se numerosos álbuns que alcançaram o 1º lugar das tabelas de vendas em todo o mundo como ‘The Wall’, ‘Animals’, ‘Wish You Were Here’, ‘The Final Cut’ e o mais recente, ‘The Endless River’, em 2014.

As edições da Pink Floyd Records serão produzidas e distribuídas pela Warner Music para o Reino Unido e Europa e pela Sony Music para a América do Norte e resto do mundo. Max Lousada, presidente e CEO da Warner Music UK, disse: “Orgulhamo-nos de continuar a apoiar uma das maiores e mais influentes bandas do mundo.

É um capítulo novo e entusiasmante na nossa longa parceria com os Pink Floyd e estamos desejosos de trabalhar com eles na preservação da sua obra notável”. Rob Stringer, presidente e CEO da Columbia Records, disse: “Orgulhamo-nos de continuar a longa relação, na América do Norte e não só, entre a Columbia Records e os Pink Floyd. Estamos entusiasmados em trabalhar com a banda no seu incrível legado musical.”

On 3 June 2016, Pink Floyd Records will begin the reintroduction of the Pink Floyd catalogue on vinyl for the first time in over two decades. The first four records will be ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’, ‘A Saucerful of Secrets’, the soundtrack from the film ‘More’ and the 2 LP set ‘Ummagumma’. Pink Floyd Records will reproduce the vinyl catalogue throughout the year with release dates being announced at regular intervals.

Special care has been taken to replicate the original packaging. The first batch of releases, mastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman will be pressed on 180gram vinyl for optimum sound quality.

Waters originally planned the album as a soundtrack for the 1982 film Pink Floyd - The Wall. However, he re-wrote it as a concept album exploring the betrayal of his father who died serving in World War II.

"The Final Cut extends the autobiography of The Wall, concentrating on Roger Waters' pain when his father died in World War II. Waters spins this off into a treatise on the futility of war, concentrating on the Falkland Islands, setting his blistering condemnations and scathing anger to impossibly subdued music that demands full attention. This is more like a novel than a record, requiring total concentration since shifts in dynamics, orchestration, and instrumentation are used as effect. This means that while this has the texture of classic Pink Floyd, somewhere between the brooding sections of The Wall and the monolithic menace of Animals, there are no songs or hooks to make these radio favorites. The even bent of the arrangements, where the music is used as texture, not music, means that The Final Cut purposely alienates all but the dedicated listener. Several of those listeners maintain that this is among Pink Floyd's finest efforts, and it certainly is an achievement of some kind -- there's not only no other Floyd album quite like it, it has no close comparisons to anybody else's work (apart from Waters' own The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, yet that had a stronger musical core). That doesn't make this easier to embrace, of course, and it's damn near impenetrable in many respects, but with its anger, emphasis on lyrics, and sonic textures, it's clear that it's the album that Waters intended it to be." - Thomas Erlewine, All Music

Lista de Faixas:

Lado A
01. The Post War Dream
02. Your Possible Pasts
03. One of the Few
04. When the Tigers Broke Free
05. The Hero's Return
06. The Gunner's Dream
07. Paranoid Eyes

Lado B
08. Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
09. The Fletcher Memorial Home
10. Southampton Dock
11. The Final Cut
12. Not Now John
13. Two Suns In the Sunset

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