The cover was designed by Hipgnosis, and was the band's first not to feature their name, or have photographs of them on any part of it. It was recorded at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) in London, and was the band's first album to reach number 1 in the UK, while it reached number 55 in the US, eventually going gold there. It was released by Harvest on 2 October 1970 in the UK, and by Capitol on 10 October 1970 in the US. ![]() ‘Atom Heart Mother’ was a spotlight ahead for Pink Floyd, showing the extensions of form the band would engage in so successfully on ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ just a few short years later.Atom Heart Mother is the fifth studio album by the English band Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd offers a range of emotion here, from doleful to crazed to humorous (especially the dramatised comments on macrobiotics in the closer). ![]() There’s some moody folk from Roger Waters, an almost Kinks-ish rambler from Richard Wright, then more moody folk (this time from Gilmour) on ‘Fat Old Sun’ and, to close, the spirited melodic run-around of ‘Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast’. 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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