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This album is still the "dark horse" it was in '78 among rock guitar aficionados. Far and away Gilmour's finest solo effort to this day, it is brimming with a sense of expansiveness and dark beauty on every track. "Mihalis" brings forth a sublime introduction to the aural adventures this album takes the listener on, by blending elegant simplicity with great refinement and subtlety. The Roy Harper penned lyrics for "Short and Sweet" are truly great poetry, very inspired, and the music here is perfect for them. This record always did have a somewhat constrained, reserved sonic blend/mastering sound, but I was ecstatic to learn Doug Sax was behind the remaster for the 2006 edition. The improvisational genius behind the guitar phrasing and emotive pyrotechnics on the instrumental "Raise My Rent" is enough to put DG up there with the most gifted and brilliant players of all time. This is a timeless classic of genuine psychedelic vision and authority.