The Dark Side of the Moon

The Dark Side of the Moon Redux 

Is the sixth studio album by the English musician Roger Waters, released on 6 October 2023. Produced by Waters Gus Seyffert, Redux is a new version of The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) by Waters' former band, Pink Floyd, released for its 50th anniversary. It received mixed reviews; some critics praised the artistic exercise and renewed focus on lyrics, while others criticised its slow pace or saw it as indulgent.

Waters co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon, with lyrics by Waters, spent 736 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. In 1985, Waters left Pink Floyd and began a solo career.

In 2022, Waters released The Lockdown Sessions (2022), comprising stripped-back rerecordings of several of his solo tracks and tracks with Pink Floyd. During the recording, it occurred to him that he could make a similar rerecording of The Dark Side of the Moon for its 50th anniversary. In a press release, Waters wrote: "[We] were so young when we made [the original], and when you look at the world around us, clearly the message hasn't stuck. That's why I started to consider what the wisdom of an 80 year old could bring to a reimagined version.

The Dark Side of the Moon Redux features no other members of Pink Floyd, and was recorded with musicians including Gus Seyffert, Joey Waronker, Jonathan Wilson, Jon Carin, Johnny Shepherd, Azniv Korkejian (Bedouine), Via Mardot, Gabe Noel, and Robert Walter. It features spoken-word sections and no guitar solos, to "bring out the heart and soul of the album musically and spiritually". The new version of "Speak to Me" includes Waters' recitation of his lyrics from the 1972 Pink Floyd track "Free Four".

Waters did not intend Redux to replace The Dark Side of the Moon, and instead intended it as a tribute and a way to readdress its political statements. He said: "The new recording is more reflective I think, and it's more indicative of what the concept of the record was." The Pink Floyd drummer, Nick Mason, said Redux was "absolutely brilliant ... It's not anything that would be a spoiler for the original at all, it's an interesting add-on to the thing." He supported the concept of revisiting and developing existing work.