Fusing themes that straddled their complete profession – psychological fragmentation (particularly Syd Barrett’s), memory and loss – the nursery-rhyme chiming of guitar and vocals echo the repetitive behaviours of the institutionalised.
The seamless segue into the uplifting finale of Eclipse set the marker in how you can close out an idea (or certainly any) album. It has by no means been bettered.
R.I.P dear Syd Barrett!
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