The 23-minute-long title-track is an instrumental machine of psychedelia, with a confusing orchestral accompaniment. The title itself has apparently no meaning, and the fat cow on the cover seems to have no relation at all with the content of the album, but it is very efficient in capturing your attention while walking down the record store shelves. This is why the record is more like a compilation than a solid team-made album, but despite that fact the whole thing works better than you could expect. The only thing they needed to achieve this important goal for their career were ideas, and since there were none, all the members set to work on their own as they did in 1968 for A Saucerful of Secrets just to meet at the end and put together what they came up with.įive tracks were born eventually: two suites (written by the four members, putting together the more ideas they could) and three 5-minute-long songs (sung by their own composers). This is in fact the first album that sees them in the progressive rock scene, in which Pink Floyd will be absolute protagonists throughout the Seventies, still maintaining their space-rock and psychedelic roots. Indeed, it is, but the circumstances can explain why it is what it is.īefore 1970 Pink Floyd was known as a psychedelic and drug-orientated band, but the members didn't quite accept the impression that they were giving to the public opinion, as they announce during the interviews in the DVD Live at Pompeii: Director's Cut, so it was very important to blow away this 'bad reputation' and start composing something more mature and original.

Review Summary: Just as epic as its album art.Ītom Heart Mother is often regarded as conceptless, incomplete and disorganised.

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