The title suite features French-horn-led brass melodies riffed on by David Gilmour's guitar and the rhythm section, all of which veers into choral passages that recall Gyorgy Ligeti's vocal works and then almost atonal pulses of keyboards that mask reams of audio snippets swirling underneath. In the grand, colour-bending tradition of psychedelic experimentalism, Pink Floyd's 'Atom Heart Mother' takes as its title an inscrutable phrase and under the title launches a similarly inscrutable - or at least dense - musical concatenation. This was the band's first recording with an orchestra, the title track 'The Atom Heart Mother Suite' taking up a full side of the original vinyl release. Pink Floyd's first UK number 1 album was released in 1970.
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