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| Studio album / Soundtrack album by Pink Floyd | ||||
| Released | 2 June 1972 | |||
| Recorded | 23–29 February and 23 March–6 April 1972 | |||
| Studio | Strawberry Studios, Château d'Hérouville, Hérouville, Île-de-France, France | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 40:08 | |||
| Language | English | |||
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| Producer | Pink Floyd | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Christgau's Record Guide | C |
| The Daily Telegraph | |
| MusicHound Rock | 1/5 |
| Paste | 7.0/10 |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
Obscured by Clouds is the seventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, based on their soundtrack for the French film La Vallée, by Barbet Schroeder. It was released in the United Kingdom on 2 June 1972, and a few weeks later in the United States, by Harvest Records, reaching number 6 and number 46 respectively. A single, "Free Four", was issued in the US only.
The album was something of a stopgap for the band, who had already started work on The Dark Side of the Moon, and was recorded in two sessions in France between touring, with three days for mixing. The original plan was to just record small sections of music, but they ultimately created enough songs for a complete album. The resulting work has been overlooked in the Pink Floyd canon because of the huge commercial success of later albums, but still has a positive reaction from fans and critics.
By 1972, Pink Floyd had recorded the soundtracks to the films The Committee (1968) and More (1969), and to part of Zabriskie Point (1970). On the back of More's success, its director Barbet Schroeder asked the band to record the soundtrack of his next major project as and when it arrived. The new film, La Vallée, featured two travellers on a spiritual quest in New Guinea, and Schroeder thought Pink Floyd would be suitable to provide the music. The group had already started working on another album, The Dark Side of the Moon, including some basic recording and live performances, but took two breaks to Strawberry Studios, Château d'Hérouville, France, either side of a Japanese tour, to write and record music for the film. The album was then mixed from 4–6 April at Morgan Sound Studios in London.
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