ROGER WATERS Is This The Life We Really Want? 12" 2xLP Vinyl NIGEL GODRICH NEW

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Roger Waters

Is This The Life We Really Want?
12" Vinyl Double LP Album Gatefold sleeve Printed Inner Lyric Sleeves

Item Description:

Tracklist

A1 When We Were Young 1:38

A2 Déjà Vu 4:27

A3 The Last Refugee 4:12

B1 Picture That 6:47

B2 Broken Bones 4:57

C1 Is This The Life We Really Want? 5:55

C2 Bird In A Gale 5:31

C3 The Most Beautiful Girl 6:09

D1 Smell The Roses 5:15

D2 Wait For Her 4:56

D3 Oceans Apart 1:07

D4 Part Of Me Died 3:12

Companies, etc.

Distributed By – Columbia Records

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Jule Pond Productions LLC

Copyright (c) – Jule Pond Productions LLC

Licensed To – Columbia Records

Published By – Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd.

Published By – BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited

Published By – Copyright Control

Recorded At – United Recording Studios

Recorded At – Fivestar Studio

Recorded At – Electric Lady Studios

Recorded At – Wack Formula

Mastered At – Gateway Mastering

Lacquer Cut At – Alchemy Mastering

Mastered At – Record Technology Incorporated – 27817

Credits

Arranged By [Strings] – David Campbell, Nigel Godrich

Arranged By, Sounds [Sound Collages], Keyboards, Guitar – Nigel Godrich

Bass, Guitar, Keyboards – Gus Seyffert

Creative Director – Sean Evans (4)

Design – Dan Ichimoto, Danny Kamhaji, Sean Evans (4)

Drums – Joey Waronker

Engineer – Nigel Godrich, Sam Petts-Davies

Engineer [Assistant, Electric Lady] – Gosha Usov

Engineer [Assistant] – Monique Evelyn, Rouble Kapoor, Wesley Seidman

Engineer [United Recording] – Darrell Thorp

Keyboards – Lee Pardini, Roger Manning*

Keyboards, Guitar – Jonathan Wilson

Lacquer Cut By – Bazza (2)

Management – Mark Fenwick

Management [Associate] – Kate Watkins

Mastered By – Bob Ludwig

Mastered By [Vinyl] – Barry Grint

Photography By [Smell The Roses] – Viktor Bulla

Photography By [The Most Beautiful Girl] – Richard Rowley

Producer, Mixed By – Nigel Godrich

Vocals – Holly Laessig, Jess Wolfe

Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Bass – Roger Waters

Voice – Celia Drummond, Emma Clarke, Ingrid Schram, Jane Barbe, Kathy Somers, Rachel Agnew

Written-By – Roger Waters, Mahmoud Darwish* (tracks: D2)

Notes

Comes in a gatefold cover, inner sleeves with lyrics.

Recorded at:

United Recording

Five Star Recording

Electric Lady Studios

Wack Formula Studio

Mastered at Gateway Mastering

Vinyl Mastering at Alchemy

© 2017 Jule Pond Productions LLC

? 2017 Jule Pond Productions LLC under exclusive license to Columbia Records

All songs © Roger Waters Overseas Limited. Administered by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited./Copyright Control

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine 

Roger Waters may not have made an album of new material between 1992 and 2017, but he was very active during that quarter-century. He toured regularly, wrote an opera, reunited Pink Floyd for the 2005 charity concert Live 8, and revived The Wall several times, turning the self-absorbed rock opera into a political piece. Is This the Life We Really Want?, his fourth song cycle, picks up on this thread, functioning as barbed protest music for the age of Brexit and Trump. Waters doesn't disguise his bile -- there's a lament for "The Last Refugee" and he spits out "picture a leader with no f****** brains," a clear broadside against Trump -- but the album doesn't seethe with rage. With its deliberate tempos, wide soundscapes, operatic guitar solos, and swelling crescendos, it is recognizably a Waters album or, perhaps more accurately, a Floydian one. Where his other solo albums sported productions that tied them to their time -- quite garishly so in the case of 1987's Radio K.A.O.S. -- Is This the Life We Really Want? is warm and supple, thanks in no small part to a band featuring guitarists Jonathan Wilson and Gus Seyffert, drummer Joey Waronker, and keyboardist Roger Manning. The key player, though, is producer Nigel Godrich, who gives this a sonic richness evoking late-period Pink Floyd without specifically nodding toward any particular record. Certainly, Is This the Life We Really Want? lacks the straightforward narrative or melodic thrust of The Wall, but it isn't as somnolent as The Final Cut, and if the songs don't call attention to themselves, they nevertheless form a long suite that works as a sustained mood piece.

Jacket Condition: VG+

Very Good Plus condition, new, sealed, minor wear on jacket corners and plastic sealing from being on store shelf (see pictures).

Vinyl Condition:  Sealed

Never opened or played, sealed, new.

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